Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman
Jessie Kratz (Editor), Martha Grove (Editor)
This book takes a humorous and historical look at the campaign trail as drawn by Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman. A staff political cartoonist for the Washington Post and the Washington Evening Star for the first half of the twentieth century, Berryman drew thousands of cartoons commenting on the candidates, campaigns, issues and elections of his era highlighting both specific and timeless aspects of the American campaign and election process. The cartoons reproduced in this book are from an extraordinary collection of Berryman’s original cartoons in the U.S. Senate collection at the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives.
A Washington institution, Berryman's 53 years of daily front-page drawings were internationally renowned and his cartoons provide an unparalleled insight into the American political process. Although faces and personalities change and specific issues evolve with each new election year, Berryman’s cartoons illustrate how American political rituals have remained remarkably unchanged.
Published in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, DC
Soft Cover Edition
110 pages
Your Price $21.95
Book Description
Clifford Berryman was a Pulitzer winner and staff political cartoonist for the Washington Post and the Washington Evening Star for the first half of the twentieth century. He drew thousands of cartoons commenting on the candidates, campaigns and elections, both presidential and congressional, of his era. With simple pen strokes, his cartoons foreshdow the future, poke fun at the past, and provide unparalleled insights. Although faces and personalities change and specific issues evolve with each new election year, Berryman cartoons illustrate how the election process in America has remained remarkably unchanged.
About the Author
Jessie Kratz is an archives specialist with the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Martha Grove is an archivist with the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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