I've Decided I Want My Seat Back

I've Decided I Want My Seat Back
Title I've Decided I Want My Seat Back PDF eBook
Author Bill Mauldin
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Pages 152
Release 1965
Genre Humor
ISBN

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The nearly 200 cartoons in this new collection range from the incisively witty to the explosive. They represent the artist's choice of his best work during an extraordinary period--Fall 1961 through Spring 1965--and amount to a cartoon history of the times, covering such diverse topics as the Cuban crisis, the Sino-Soviet dispute, the assassination of President Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson's race against Barry Goldwater and his re-election, and the war in Vietnam.

Revel with a Cause

Revel with a Cause
Title Revel with a Cause PDF eBook
Author Stephen E. Kercher
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 589
Release 2010-06-15
Genre Humor
ISBN 0226431657

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We live in a time much like the postwar era. A time of arch political conservatism and vast social conformity. A time in which our nation’s leaders question and challenge the patriotism of those who oppose their policies. But before there was Jon Stewart, Al Franken, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce—liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times. Revel with a Cause is their story. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy—not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such asSecond City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was—Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period’s satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. A vibrant and probing look at some of the most influential comedy of mid-twentieth-century America, Revel with a Cause belongs on the short list of essential books for anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and popular culture.

Bill Mauldin

Bill Mauldin
Title Bill Mauldin PDF eBook
Author Todd DePastino
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 396
Release 2008
Genre Art
ISBN 9780393061833

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The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes.--From publisher description.

American Political Cartoons

American Political Cartoons
Title American Political Cartoons PDF eBook
Author Sandy Northrop
Publisher Routledge
Pages 206
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1351532448

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From Benjamin Franklin's drawing of the first American political cartoon in 1754 to contemporary cartoonists' blistering attacks on George W. Bush and initial love-affair with Barack Obama, editorial cartoons have been a part of American journalism and politics. American Political Cartoons chronicles the nation's highs and lows in an extensive collection of cartoons that span the entire history of American political cartooning."Good cartoons hit you primitively and emotionally," said cartoonist Doug Marlette. "A cartoon is a frontal attack, a slam dunk, a cluster bomb." Most cartoonists pride themselves on attacking honestly, if ruthlessly. American Political Cartoons recounts many direct hits, recalling the discomfort of the cartoons' targets?and the delight of their readers.Through skillful combination of pictures and words, cartoonists galvanize public opinion for or against their subjects. In the process they have revealed truths about us and our democratic system that have been both embarrassing and ennobling. Stephen Hess and Sandy Northrop note that not all cartoonists have worn white hats. Many have perpetuated demeaning ethnic stereotypes, slandered honest politicians, and oversimplified complex issues.

One Nation Underground

One Nation Underground
Title One Nation Underground PDF eBook
Author Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 324
Release 2001-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 0814769195

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Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.

Reports of the Tax Court of the United States

Reports of the Tax Court of the United States
Title Reports of the Tax Court of the United States PDF eBook
Author United States. Tax Court
Publisher
Pages 1204
Release 1973
Genre Taxation
ISBN

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Encyclopedia of War and American Society

Encyclopedia of War and American Society
Title Encyclopedia of War and American Society PDF eBook
Author Peter Karsten
Publisher SAGE
Pages 1385
Release 2006
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0761930973

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