By John Chalmers Vinson
ISBN-10: 0820347078
ISBN-13: 9780820347073
Original ebook 1967
If it really is actual that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one photograph is worthy 1000 phrases, Thomas Nast needs to definitely rank as probably the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American heritage. His pen, dipped in satire, aroused an apathetic, disinterested, and uninformed public to indignation and motion greater than as soon as. the main impressive Nast crusade, and possibly the only top recorded this present day, was once directed opposed to manhattan City’s Tammany corridor and its boss, William Marcy Tweed. Boss Tweed and his ring so feared the ability of Nast and his drawings that they as soon as provided him a bribe of $500,000.
Six presidents of the U.S. got and gratefully authorised Nast’s aid in the course of their candidacies and administrations. of those, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses provide, credited Nast with greater than mere help. through the Civil struggle, Lincoln referred to as Nast his “best recruiting sergeant,” and after the struggle furnish, then a basic, wrote that Nast had performed as “much as anyone guy to maintain the Union and produce the warfare to an end.” all through his profession the cartoonist remained an ardent champion of furnish who, after his election in 1868, attributed his victory to “the sword of Sheridan and the pencil of Thomas Nast.”
Nast’s paintings continues to be common this present day. It was once Nast who popularized the fashionable recommendations 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 a hundred and 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 sketch a revered and strong journalistic shape.
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Then too, Horace Greeley, chosen by the Liberal Re publicans and Democrats, a "conclave of cranks," to head their presidential ticket, while highly esteemed for great personal journalism as editor of the New York Tribune, was highly eccentric and a perfect mark for any caricaturist. " He was a cartoonist's dream with his moonface fringed with mutton chop whiskers, his small steel-rimmed glasses, tall white hat, flowing white coat, and green umbrella (No. 66). Such a distinct per sonality almost defied serious presentation in pic tures.
Nast once sought to force Greeley, whose opinion carried great weight, to action by showing him applying whitewash to Mayor Hall. The cartoonist was harsh in his judg ment for Greeley's Tribune followed Harper s and the Times into the crusade before any other paper. When Greeley became the Liberal Republican and Democratic candidate for President against Nast's hero, Grant, the artist never tired of showing Greeley and Tweed as confederates (Nos. 46, 62, 6 3 ) . These cartoons were the first of Nast's most furious series of presidential campaign caricatures.
Then Nast could define issues and attack with the mace rather than with the rapier. His position was clear, his com ment always unclouded, and a vast, sympathetic PRESIDENT public applauded. Presidential elections had been for him the latest expression of an ageless struggle of right against wrong, wisdom against error. A l ways his best work bore the stamp of an "intense expression of moral conviction . . " With Hayes' inauguration, political and mili tary reconstruction came to an end. To a lesser degree there was a psychological change as well.
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