Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565847040 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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An unexpected find The book is a collection of cartoons by Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel in the period up to and just following the US entry in to WWII in December of 19An unexpected find D. Andrew Kille The book is a collection of cartoons by Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel in the period up to and just following the US entry in to WWII in December of 1941. Full page versions of the cartoons are accompanied by a detailed commentary by Richard Minear, retired professor of history at UMass Amherst. It's an intriguing collection, demonstrating many of the styles and characters that Seuss developed in his children's books (he had already published several, like "To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street," "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins," "Horton Hatches the E. 1. Full page versions of the cartoons are accompanied by a detailed commentary by Richard Minear, retired professor of history at UMass Amherst. It's an intriguing collection, demonstrating many of the styles and characters that Seuss developed in his children's books (he had already published several, like "To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street," "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins," "Horton Hatches the E. Autumn Sky said A True Eye Opener. Like most people, I grew up reading Dr. Seuss books and I read them to my kids. It's odd to see the familiar drawings dealing with such grim material, but it gave me a better idea how he became such a wise author and why so many of his stores have that evil-gets-you-no-where theme. All wars are terrible, but WWII will always stand out as one of the most tragic and evil chapters in human history and this author saw it all and understood it. This book gave me a greater understanding of how badly Dr. Seuss wanted to teach very young children how to get along, . Sancho Panza said Thanks to Dr. Seuss, who helped us win WWII. The Dr.Seuss known to children in his later career, is said to have regretted much of his depictions of the Japanese and sometimes of the Germans in his "Goes to War" book, but it is a lesson in sociology and the consciousness, the anger, the justified paranoid stance, in America and environs during WWII. He helped gather energy from the bewildered masses of America to help the War Effort and although he may have regretted his passionate and powerful cartoons of the war years, we needed his way of reaching the hearts, minds, and the pocketbooks of citizens
He also turned his pen against America's internal enemies--isolationists, hoarders, complainers, anti-Semites, and anti-black racists--and urged Americans to work together to win the war. Before Yertle, before the Cat in the Hat, before Little Cindy-Lou Who (but after Mulberry Street), Dr. --Sunny Delaney. Seuss drew over 400 cartoons in just under two years for the paper, reflecting the daily's New Deal liberal slant. The cartoons are often funny, peopled with bowler-hatted "everymen" and what author Art Spiegelman calls "Seussian fauna" in his preface. Those who grew up on Seuss will enjoy early glimpses of his later work; history buffs will enjoy this new--if playful and contorted--angle on World War II. Perhaps most disturbing is the realization that Seuss was just reflecting the wart
Minear that places them in the context of the national climate they reflect.Pulitzer Prizewinner Art Spiegelman’s introduction places Seuss firmly in the pantheon of the leading political cartoonists of our time.. For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisel’s cartoons, alongside "insightful" (Booklist) commentary by the historian Richard H. Seuss. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents "a provocative history of wartime politics" (Entertainment Weekly). But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. Dr