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"Not just a story of cartoons but a history of America through
cartoons. Agreat gift book."
--"Brian Lehrer Live"
"An afternoon with The Art of Ill Will is time well spent,
especially when followed by Funny Times, the cartoon monthly, and
The Colbert Report."
--"New York Times Book Review"
"The true stars of this book are the cartoons themselves. During
a period when an entire government seems drawn by a sartirist, its
instructive to look back at a history of politics reduced to two
dimensions. "
--"Village Voice"
"Dewey makes a strong case that the political cartoons has
played a uniquely formative role in American history."--"Cartoon
News"
"[A] handsome and bracingly irreverent history of the
form."
--"New York Sun"
"This will make a nice coffee-table title for political
junkies."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"This hybrid volume mixing history and sociology with political
cartoons entertainingly brings the past to light. "
--"Library Journal"
"[Dewey's] well-researched text offers insight into the
historical setting that allowed the form the burgeon in the late
nineteenth century, as well as interesting anecdotal information
that illuminates shadowed elements of political history."
--Popmatters.com
"Several previous titles have tackled this important subject,
but none equals the depth, breadth, and value of this new
title."
--"The Bloomsbury Review"
"More than 200 pungent examples, from the days of Paul Revere
and Benjamin Franklin to thepresent, with a smooth text that
explains the special punch of editorial cartoonists."
--"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
"A striking panorama of the unruly history of the American
cartoonists trade. "
--"Austin American Statesman"
"Covers many, widely unknown political battles and scandals as
well as cartoons that steered and swayed mass opinion with a one
panel drawing."--"Alarm"
"Provides hundreds of examples of . . . puncturing the myths and
mendacities in the political arena."--"Copley News Service"
The Art of Ill Will is a comprehensive history of American
political cartooning, featuring over two hundred illustrations.
From the colonial period to contemporary cartoonists like Pat
Oliphant and Jimmy Margulies, Donald Dewey highlights these artists
uncanny ability to encapsulate the essence of a situation and to
steer the public mood with a single drawing and caption. Taking
advantage of unlimited access to The Granger Collection, which
holds thousands of the most significant works of Thomas Nast and
the other early American cartoonists, The Art of Ill Will provides
a survey of American history writ large, capturing the voice of the
peopleᾹhopeful, angry, patriotic, frustratedᾹin times of peace and
war, prosperity and depression.
Dewey tracks the cartoonists role as a jester with a serious
brief. Ulysses S. Grant credited cartoonists with helping him win
his election and was not the only president to feel that way;
political bosses and even state legislatures have sought to ban
cartoons when they endangered entrenched interests; General George
Patton once promised to throw beloved wartime cartoonist Bill
Mauldin in jail if he continued to spread dissent.(Mauldin later
won the Pulitzer Prize.)
Despite the increasing threats they face as daily newspapers
merge or vanish, cartoonists have given us some of our most
memorable images, from Theodore Roosevelt's pince-nez and mustache
to Richard Nixon's Pinocchio nose to Jimmy Carters Chiclet teeth.
At a time when domestic and foreign political developments have
made these artists more necessary than ever, The Art of Ill Will is
a rich collection of the wickedly clever images that puncture
pomposity and personalize American history.
Cartoonists include: Benjamin Franklin (whose Join, or Die was
the first modern American political cartoon), the astoundingly
prolific Thomas Nast, "Puck" magazine founder Joseph Keppler,
Adalbert Volck, suffragist Laura Foster, Uncle Sam creator James
Montgomery Flagg, Theodore Geisel departing from his Dr. Seuss
persona to tackle World War II, Herbert Herblock Block (who so
enraged Richard Nixon that the president canceled his subscription
to the Washington Post), Daniel Fitzpatrick, Jules Feiffer, Paul
Conrad, Gary Trudeau, and the controversial Ted Rall.
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