The ungentlemanly art
Subtitle: a history of American political cartoons
By: by Stephen Hess and Milton Kaplan.
Contributors: Kaplan, Milton, 1918- joint author.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: American wit and humor, Pictorial -- History; Political cartoons; United States -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons
Other titles: History of American political cartoons.; American political cartoons.
Description: This account of the American political cartoon from 1747 to the work of contemporary cartoonists such as Mauldin and Herblock chronicles the careers of the famous figures and the political situations which provided the cartoonists with their material. It also offers a picture of the mass media (broadsides, newspapers and magazines) through which the cartoonists reached their audiences.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 225-235.