title: Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons
author:  Fiona Deans Halloran 
description: One of the great pleasures of Halloran's biography is watching Nast go from being a mere artist to a political-cartooning superstar. In the process, we also get a more concrete look at what cartooning meant for Nastnot just as art, but as a means of wielding political influence and making money. Halloran captures the intensity of the period, in which Nast churned out cartoon after cartoon, sometimes as many as seven per weekly issue. The process resembles nothing so much as modern-day political blogging. One might forgive a biographer for exaggerating the extent to which her subject's art brought down the tyrant but <i>Thomas Nast</i> is still a powerful public case study of the unique power of art, and a saga of Gilded Age politics. Josh Fruhlinger
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  F I O N A  D E A N S  H A L L O R A N
  THOMAS
  NAST
  THE FATHER OF MODERN POLITICAL CARTOONS
  THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS����Chapel Hill
  
  Publication of this book was supported in part  
  by a generous gift from Crandall and Erskine Bowles.
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  Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
  Halloran, Fiona Deans.
  Thomas Nast : the father of modern political cartoons /  
  Fiona Deans Halloran. — 1 [edition].
  pages cm
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 978