Research Catalog

Title

Dr. Seuss goes to war : the World War II editorial cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel / Richard H. Minear.

Author

Minear, Richard H.

Publication

New York : New Press, c1999.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991.
• Mandeville Special Collections Library.
• Seuss, Dr.
• Spiegelman, Art

Description

272 p. : ill., facsims.; 24 cm.

Summary

The hardcover edition of Dr. Seuss Goes to War was published to extraordinary acclaim, selling out four printings and featured in publications from the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times to Entertainment Weekly and Mother Jones. Now, for the first time, the book that the New York Times Book Review hailed as "fascinating" is available in paperback.

Uniform Title

PM (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• Editorial cartoons > United States > 20th century
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 > Caricatures and cartoons
• Political cartoons > 20th century
• Political cartoons > United States > 20th century
• Seuss, Dr. > Catalogs
• United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945 > Caricatures and cartoons
• World War, 1939-1945 > Caricatures and cartoons
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans > Caricatures and cartoons
• World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Caricatures and cartoons

Genre/Form

• Caricatures and cartoons
• Caricatures and cartoons.
• Cartoons (humorous images) – U.S.A. – 1940-1949.
• Cartoons – 20th Century.
• Catalogs.

Note

• Political cartoons first published in PM.
• "Published in cooperation with the Dr. Seuss Collection at the University of California at San Diego."
• Introduction by Art Spiegelman.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Art Spiegelman -- Some Important Dates -- Dr. Seuss and PM -- The Home Front -- Hitler and Nazi Germany -- The Rest of the World -- Winning The War.

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library