[lbo-talk] Golden age of satire?

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 16 11:59:14 PDT 2004


Dr. Seuss during WWII cartooned for PM, the NYC Popular Front left-liberal pwoggy paper.

His caricatures of the Japanese were quite vicious. http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2004/10/14/political_dr_seuss_is_all_reason_no_rhyme/
> ...He also came down hard on the Japanese with breathtaking buck-toothed
> racism, and it's amusing to watch Lamothe's film twist itself into PC
> pretzels to address this.
Dr. Seuss Went to War : A catalog of political cartoons... http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/index.htm http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm (Japanese)
> ...More than 200 of the cartoons were assembled for the first time in
> the book_Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of
> Theodor Seuss Geisel_ by Richard H. Minear. Minear is a professor of
> history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and one of the
> country's leading historians of Japan during World War II.

-- Michael Pugliese



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