- Dr. Seuss Goes to War
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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel is a book written by Richard H. Minear, containing Dr. Seuss's political cartoons created during World War II. Dr. Seuss Goes to War denounced Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and were highly critical of non-interventionists ("isolationists"), most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed US entry into the war.[1] One cartoon[2] depicted all Japanese Americans as latent traitors or fifth-columnists, while at the same time other cartoons deplored the racism at home against Jews and blacks that harmed the war effort. His cartoons were strongly supportive of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's handling of the war, combining the usual exhortations to ration and contribute to the war effort with frequent attacks on Congress[3] (especially the Republican Party[4]), parts of the press (such as the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald),[5] and others for criticism of Roosevelt, criticism of aid to the Soviet Union,[6][7] investigation of suspected Communists,[8] and other offenses that he depicted as leading to disunity and helping the Nazis, intentionally or inadvertently.
References
- ^ Minear, Richard H. (1999). Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. New York, New York: The New Press. p. 9. ISBN 156584565X.
- ^ Dr. Seuss (w, a). "Waiting for the Signal from Home" PM (February 13)
- ^ http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Congress.html
- ^ http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/RepublicanParty.html
- ^ Minear, op. cit., p. 191
- ^ http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/pm/1942/20219cs.jpg
- ^ http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/pm/1942/20311cs.jpg
- ^ Minear, op. cit., p. 190-1
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