Dr. Seuss goes to war :

Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991.

Dr. Seuss goes to war : the World War II editorial cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel / Doctor Seuss goes to war. Richard H. Minear. - Pbk. ed. - New York : San Diego : New Press ; Published in cooperation with the Dr. Seuss Collection at the University of California, San Diego, 2001. - 272 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 23 cm.

Cartoons drawn for the New York daily newspaper PM.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267)

Introduction / Art Spiegelman -- Some important dates -- Dr. Seuss and PM -- The home front -- Hitler and Nazi Germany -- The rest of the World -- Winning and war -- Concluding thoughts.

Presents more than two hundred reproductions of the political cartoons of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, written during World War II for the daily newspaper, "PM," between 1941 and 1942, and that comment on isolationism, racism, and anti-Semitism. Primary source material.

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World War, 1939-1945--Caricatures and cartoons.
World politics--1900-1945--Caricatures and cartoons.
American wit and humor, Pictorial.


United States--Politics and government--1933-1945--Caricatures and cartoons.

D745.2 / .G45 2001

940.54/002/07