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Thomas Nast, America's best-ever political cartoonist, is renowned for creating the Republican Elephant and popularizing the Democratic Donkey. He also created the modern images of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam, brought down Boss Tweed and his Ring of thieves, influenced five Presidential elections, and satirically commented on seven administrations.This 830-page book contains 1,000 Nast cartoons, illustrations, sketches and paintings - 800 of them from Harper's Weekly and the balance from other rare publications - as well as 100 cartoons by other artists on related topics. Each has its content and context explained and its characters identified. Its manually-created index includes topics/issue and people/characters portrayed in the cartoons over a 30-year period, making it a unique pictorial reference book.Nast was the first journalist who didn't own his paper to play a major role shaping public opinion. However, he could not have done so without the quality, consistency, financial strength and resultant reach and dominance of Harper's Weekly, the country's leading illustrated newspaper. Including passalong readership, Nast's cartoons always had 500,000 to a million or more viewers, a key factor in his influence.To engage and persuade his audience, Nast effectively created a new visual language replete with symbols, caricatures, allegories, satire, puns and repetitive slogans. His readers understood his ocular shorthand, comprehended the minute details which more subtly reinforced his frontal attacks, and were familiar with his Shakespearean and other literary references.Author John Adler won the prestigious e-Lincoln prize for creating HarpWeek, the manually-indexed database of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912). A unique index of Nast's 2,200 cartoons and illustrations provided the backbone and initial inspiration for this biography.For anyone interested in visualizing the political history of the Civil War, Reconstruction or the Gilded Age, this book should be interesting and enjoyable. The unique index will be invaluable to journalists, historians, politicians, educators and, of course, cartoonists. Nast's wit, artistry and ability to draw as many as 40 recognizable characters in a cartoon or personifying and crystalizing an issue like inflation has never been equaled.

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