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Four turbulent decades : a cartoon history of America, 1962-2001 from the pen of Tom Engelhardt / edited by Joan Stack ; with a commentary by Jules Feiffer and Tom Engelhardt

Catalog Data

Editor:
Stack, Joan 1965-  Search this
Commentary:
Feiffer, Jules  Search this
Engelhardt, Tom 1930-  Search this
Publisher:
State Historical Society of Missouri  Search this
Subject:
Engelhardt, Tom 1930-  Search this
Physical description:
xxii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Missouri
Saint Louis
United States
Date:
2015
20th century
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Editor's foreword -- Commentary by Jules Feiffer and Tom Engelhardt -- Select cartoons, with commentaries by Joan Stack -- 1962-1969 -- 1970-1979 -- 1980-1989 -- 1990-2001
Summary:
Tom Engelhardt was the editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "He created cartoons that took America's emotional, political, and social temperature during some of the nation's most turbulent decades. In the 1960s his cartoons covered the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the moon landing. In the 1970s he witnessed Watergate, the fall of Richard Nixon, turmoil in the Middle East, and the ongoing Cold War. During the 1980s he commented on the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, environmental issues, and the fall of the Soviet Union. In the 1990s, a decade that also saw the presidential election, reelection, impeachment and acquitical of Bill Clinton, as well as the rise of global terrorism. One of Engelhardt's last cartoons documented the world-changing terrorist attacks of the new millennium on September 11, 2001."
Topic:
Cartoonists  Search this
Cartooning  Search this
Caricatures and cartoons  Search this
American newspapers  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1066975