Thomas Nast, Political Cartoonist by John Chalmers Vinson,Thomas Nast

By John Chalmers Vinson,Thomas Nast

If it's actual that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one photo is worthy 1000 phrases, Thomas Nast needs to definitely rank as essentially the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American historical past. His pen, dipped in satire, aroused an apathetic, disinterested, and uninformed public to indignation and motion greater than as soon as. the main extraordinary Nast crusade, and possibly the only most sensible recorded this present day, used to be directed opposed to long island City’s Tammany corridor and its boss, William Marcy Tweed. Boss Tweed and his ring so feared the facility of Nast and his drawings that they as soon as provided him a bribe of $500,000.

Six presidents of the us got and gratefully accredited Nast’s aid in the course of their candidacies and administrations. of those, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses provide, credited Nast with greater than mere aid. in the course of the Civil warfare, Lincoln referred to as Nast his “best recruiting sergeant,” and after the battle provide, then a basic, wrote that Nast had performed as “much as anybody guy to maintain the Union and convey the conflict to an end.” all through his occupation the cartoonist remained an ardent champion of supply who, after his election in 1868, attributed his victory to “the sword of Sheridan and the pencil of Thomas Nast.”

Nast’s paintings remains to be conventional at the present time. It was once Nast who popularized the trendy options of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam and who created such symbols because the Democratic donkey, the Republican elephant, and the Tammany tiger.

With greater than one hundred fifty examples of Nast’s paintings, Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist recreates the lifestyles and development of inventive improvement of the fellow who made the political comic strip a revered and robust journalistic form.

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