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Book Bill Mauldin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Todd DePastino
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780393061833
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Bill Mauldin written by Todd DePastino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Willie   Joe

Download or read book Willie Joe written by Bill Mauldin and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie & Joe: Back Home brilliantly chronicles the struggles and disillusionments of these early post-WWII years and, in doing so, tells Bill Mauldin’s own extraordinary story of his journey home to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in pictures. The drawings capture the texture and feel, the warp and woof, of this confusing time: the ubiquitous hats and cigarettes, the domestic rubs, the rising fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech. This second volume of Fantagraphics’ series reprinting Mauldin’s greatest work identifies and restores the dozens of cartoons censored by Mauldin’s syndicate for their attacks on racial segregation and McCarthy-style “witch hunts.” Mauldin pleaded with his syndicate to let him out of his contract so that he could return to the simple quiet life so desired by Willie & Joe. The syndicate refused, so Mauldin did battle, as always, through pen and ink.

Book Drawing Fire  The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin

Download or read book Drawing Fire The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin written by Todd Depastino and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, along with a half-century of graphic commentary on civil rights, free speech, the Cold War, and other issues. Army sergeant William Henry "Bill" Mauldin shot to fame during World War II with his grim and gritty "Willie & Joe" cartoons, which gave readers of Stars & Stripes and hundreds of home-front newspapers a glimpse of the war from the foxholes of Europe. Lesser known are Mauldin's second and even third acts as one of America's premier political cartoonists from the last half of the twentieth century, when he traveled to Korea and Vietnam; Israel and Saudi Arabia; Oxford, Mississippi, and Washington, D.C.; covering war and peace, civil rights and the Great Society, Nixon and the Middle East. He especially kept close track of American military power, its use and abuse, and the men and women who served in uniform. Now, for the first time, his entire career is explored in this illustrated single volume, featuring selections from Chicago's Pritzker Military Museum & Library.Edited by Mauldin's biographer, Todd DePastino, and featuring 150 images, Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin includes illuminating essays exploring all facets of Mauldin's career by Tom Brokaw, Cord A. Scott, G. Kurt Piehler, and Christina Knopf.

Book Up Front

Download or read book Up Front written by Bill Mauldin and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1968 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up Front by Bill Mauldin is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War, a classic in every sense of the word. In his drawings of the infantry dog-faces Willie and Joe, done while he himself fought in campaigns in Sicily and Italy, Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. He knew, as one who had been there himself on the front lines and in the slit trenches, drenched with mud and rain, that Willie and Joe - with their unshaven faces, their gallows humor, their fortitude, and their dislike of privilege and cant - exemplify something enduring and surely noble about Americans at war. He knew their gripes, their fears, their jokes, and their opinions, and he recorded their talk with the most pungent accuracy. As for the timelessness of this book, David Halberstam puts it best: "One senses that if a war reporter who had been with Hannibal or Napoleon saw Mauldin's work, he would know immediately that the work was right". This new edition of Up Front is being published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. It reproduces the exact design of the interior of the original 1946 edition as well as its front cover art. Up Front endures today as a piece of living history and a potent reminder of the sacrifices made by the men who fight our wars, whether that fighting takes place in Italy or France or Korea or Vietnam or the Persian Gulf.

Book Back Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Mauldin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-03-21
  • ISBN : 9781458326799
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Back Home written by Bill Mauldin and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back Home explores the early years of post-WWII, this book exceptionally chronicles the struggles and cynicism faced afterwards. Bill Mauldin tells his own extraordinary story of his journey back home from war to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in photographs. His brilliant drawings capture the texture and feel of this confusing time with the looming fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech. This book contains over 200 drawings with digital improvements.

Book The Brass Ring

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Mauldin
  • Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780393074635
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book The Brass Ring written by Bill Mauldin and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1971 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Mauldin, American most widely read editorial cartoonist, writes of his survival of a broken home, being jailed at fifteen, infuriating General Patton with his satire during W.W. II, and being wounded.

Book Mud  Mules  and Mountains

Download or read book Mud Mules and Mountains written by Bill Mauldin and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of war cartoons from World War II.

Book The Art of Ill Will

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Dewey
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2008-10
  • ISBN : 0814720153
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Art of Ill Will written by Donald Dewey and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 200 illustrations, this book tells the story of American political cartoons. From the colonial period to contemporary cartoonists like Pat Oliphant and Jimmy Margulies, this title highlights these artists' uncanny ability to encapsulate the essence of a situation and to steer the public mood with a single drawing.

Book I ve Decided I Want My Seat Back

Download or read book I ve Decided I Want My Seat Back written by Bill Mauldin and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1965 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Bill Mauldin  A Life Up Front

Download or read book Bill Mauldin A Life Up Front written by Todd DePastino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deeply felt, vivacious and wonderfully illustrated biography.” —Clancy Sigal, Los Angeles Times Book Review A self-described “desert rat” who rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-two, Bill Mauldin used flashing black brush lines and sardonic captions to capture the world of the American combat soldier in World War II. His cartoon dogfaces, Willie and Joe, appeared in Stars and Stripes and hundreds of newspapers back home, bearing grim witness to life in the foxhole. We’ve never viewed war in the same way since. This lushly illustrated biography draws on private papers, correspondence, and thousands of original drawings to render a full portrait of a complex and quintessentially American genius.Some images in this ebook are not displayed due to permissions issues.

Book Ron s Big Mission

Download or read book Ron s Big Mission written by Rose Blue and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron's obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage—it is a young man's first courageous mission. Here is an inspiring story, based on Ron McNair's life, of how a little boy, future scientist, and Challenger astronaut desegregated his library through peaceful resistance.

Book V was for Victory

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Morton Blum
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780156936286
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book V was for Victory written by John Morton Blum and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted historian examines the impact of culture and politics on the wartime attitudes and experiences of Americans and their expectations concerning the postwar world.

Book Sheer Misery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Louise Roberts
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 022675314X
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Sheer Misery written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The senses -- The dirty body -- The foot -- The wound -- The corpse.

Book State Troopers of America

Download or read book State Troopers of America written by William Mauldin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this book is to aquatint you with badges, hat emblems, and shoulder insignia of the front line state law enforcement officers of America today, our state troopers. It will also give you some insight into the badges and insignia of the departments, and the difficult and expensive, yet interesting hobby of collection the memorabilia of the state troopers"--

Book Revel with a Cause

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen E. Kercher
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226431657
  • Pages : 589 pages

Download or read book Revel with a Cause written by Stephen E. Kercher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Sort of a Saga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Mauldin
  • Publisher : Franklin Classics
  • Release : 2018-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780343245887
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book A Sort of a Saga written by Bill Mauldin and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Political Cartoon

Download or read book The Political Cartoon written by Charles Press and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: