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Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock

Legendary political cartoonist Herb Block left no pressing issue (or political party) unturned during his long career, which spanned most of the 20th century. Along the way, he picked up three Pulitzer Prizes, including one in 1973 that he won with his Washington Post colleagues for their coverage of the Watergate scandal. In 2002, the Herb Block Foundation donated over 14,000 of his original drawings and more than 50,000 preparatory sketches to the Library of Congress. A very small, yet excellent, selection of some of those renderings may be viewed at this site, which complements an in situ exhibit at the American Treasures Gallery in Washington, D.C. The drawings here include several that deal with the nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl, the Republican Party's so-called "Contract with America" in the 1990s, and television campaign advertisements. Each drawing is accompanied by a brief explanation of the work, along with specific information on when each cartoon originally appeared. A timeline of Herb Block's life and a checklist of objects that are included in the exhibit round out the site. The site might also be well used by political science and government in order to complement more traditional classroom materials.
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September 8th, 2006
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September 8th, 2006 at 8:37am
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September 8th, 2006 at 9:48am
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