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Author Halloran, Fiona Deans

Title Thomas Nast : the father of modern political cartoons / Fiona Deans Halloran
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 366 pages) : illustrations
Contents From Five Points to Frank Leslie's Illustrated News -- Early Work and Training -- Travel to Europe and Sallie -- Compromise with the South -- Falling in Love with Grant -- Tweed -- The Campaign of 1872 -- Redpath and Wealth -- Access and Authority -- Conflict with Curtis -- The End of an Era -- Nast's Weekly and Guayaquil -- Conclusion : Legacy
Summary Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly magazine. Throughout his career, his drawings provided a pointed critique that forced readers to confront the contradictions around them. In this biography, the writer focuses not just on Nast's political cartoons for Harper's but also on his place within the complexities of Gilded Age politics, and highlights the many contradictions in his own life: he was an immigrant who attacked immigrant communities, a supporter of civil rights who portrayed Black men as foolish children in need of guidance, and an enemy of corruption and hypocrisy who idolized Ulysses S. Grant. He was a man with powerful friends, including Mark Twain, and powerful enemies, including William M. "Boss" Tweed. The author interprets Nast's work, explores his motivations and ideals, and illuminates Nast's lasting legacy on American political culture. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-355) and index
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Subject Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902.
SUBJECT Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
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Subject Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART -- Art & Politics.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
HUMOR -- Form -- Comic Strips & Cartoons.
Cartoonists
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012024895
ISBN 9781469600239
1469600234
9780807837351
0807837350