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For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents "a provocative history of wartime politics" (Entertainment Weekly). 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. Minear that places them in the context of the national climate they reflect.
Pulitzer Prize–winner Art Spiegelman's introduction places Seuss firmly in the pantheon of the leading political cartoonists of our time.
Pulitzer Prize–winner Art Spiegelman's introduction places Seuss firmly in the pantheon of the leading political cartoonists of our time.
Price: $21.99
Pages: 272
Publisher: The New Press
Imprint: The New Press
Publication Date:
10 September 2013
ISBN: 9781595589903
Format: eBook
Praise for Dr. Seuss Goes to War:
“Scathing, fascinating stuff. . . . A provocative history of wartime politics. Grade: A.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Vigorous, trenchant, and vividly memorable, Geisel’s cartoons, accompanied by Minear’s helpful commentary, are a salutary reminder of an era in which patriotism and liberalism went hand in hand.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“Great cartooning. . . . Minear’s text gives solid context to the drawings resurrected in this collection.”
—The Atlantic Monthly
“Succeeds as both a dark-humored history lesson and a glimpse into the artistic development that would carry into Seuss’s best known books.”
—Mother Jones
“Scathing, fascinating stuff. . . . A provocative history of wartime politics. Grade: A.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Vigorous, trenchant, and vividly memorable, Geisel’s cartoons, accompanied by Minear’s helpful commentary, are a salutary reminder of an era in which patriotism and liberalism went hand in hand.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“Great cartooning. . . . Minear’s text gives solid context to the drawings resurrected in this collection.”
—The Atlantic Monthly
“Succeeds as both a dark-humored history lesson and a glimpse into the artistic development that would carry into Seuss’s best known books.”
—Mother Jones
One of the country’s leading historians of Japan during World War II, Richard H. Minear is a retired professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel (The New Press) and Victors’ Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.