{"product_id":"the-art-of-ill-will-the-story-of-american-political-cartoons-9780814719855","title":"The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons","description":"\u003cp\u003e2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design  A comprehensive history of American political cartooning  complete with over 200 illustrations  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 peoplehopeful  angry  patriotic  frustratedin 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 Roosevelts pince-nez and mustache to Richard Nixons 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651767328821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814719856","price":88.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814719855.jpg?v=1781840080","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-ill-will-the-story-of-american-political-cartoons-9780814719855","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}