Them Damned pictures: Explorations in american political cartoon art

Fischer (history u. of minnesota duluth) surveys the art and power of political cartoons in the us through the 19th and 20th centuries. He demonstrates the freedom with which cartoonists portrayed politicians they did not like and created insulting stereotypes of such groups as native Americans, blacks, Irish, and Jews. He also describes how cartoonists became political figures in their own right and were subject to the same temptations of corruption as others. Chapters also focus on the statue of liberty, the Lincoln memorial, literary allusions, and Richard Nixon. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.