David Hancock finally talks Politics!

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Uploaded by on Oct 20, 2008

Before there was YouTube and Saturday Night Live, there was Thomas Nast, whose devastating caricatures in Harpers Weekly helped produce Boss Tweeds ignominious downfall. And in Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and The New-York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves (Morgan James, $19.95), John Adler, a self-described amateur historian, along with Draper Hill (himself a political cartoonist), present Nasts work in serialized comic book form.

Nasts drawings are fleshed out by an informative and engaging narrative that credits his impact without overlooking his political incorrectness. The caricatures are a vivid reminder that both campaigns and political commentary have, for the most part, gotten tamer.

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  • Great, great use of Online Video.

    lbpromo 3 years ago

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