The Story Of America In Cartoons

The story of America in Cartoons chronicles the birth, growing pains and coming of age of the worlds most powerful nation, as seen though the eyes of great cartoonists such as Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, W.A. Rogers, D.R. Fitzpatrick, Bill Mauldin and a host of others. These guys don't pull punches. Cartoonists are outsiders and iconoclasts with a brilliant ability to encapsulate complex ides in a single image. This all adds up to a no-holds barred view of the US, from the early days when freedom was just a twinkle in the eye of the settlers, to today's political rough and tumble. With more than 230 cartoons, this is history served up in style, and it's d to make you laugh. Bill Mauldin said, 'We are not pontificators or molders of thought... Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, it it's big, hit it.' Political cartoons are the cross our leaders have to bear, and don't we love it!