The more things change…

You must be talking about a different book.  The book I am talking about deals primarily with his editorial cartoons about Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Mussilini’s Italy.  There were a handful of cartoons in the book, certainly not “many” – only 8 out of a couple hundred cartoons, dealing with racial and ethnic segregation related to jobs in war industries and the bias against hiring Black and Jewish workers which is why I said “national” stereotypes and not racial or ethnic stereotypes.  Besides, the cartoons dealing with that subject did not show a “minority” stereotype but rather more the stereotype of the “bigot” opposed to racial and ethnic integration. His pictures of Japanese civilians/soldiers/sailors/politicians etc… where primarily the ones that I was thinking of if placed in a modern context of “middle-east” type adversaries and what a group like CAIR would say in protest if a paper were to run a cartoon flavored like his.  Especially his cartoons saying that Japanese-Americans were waiting for word from Tojo to act against the US.
Besides the Axis powers he rips on Isolationist, Appeasers, Lindbergh, slow production of Military supplies, etc…
Very interesting book when viewed in a modern context and seeing that the more things change…
Also interesting to sees his slams on the Congress and the Media for nit-picking the war and our involvement – even well into 1942!  Might make for an interesting book exploring this topic.  Everyone looks back now and says how united the US was in fighting WWII and the willingness to pitch in and sacrifice for the “cause” but these cartoons certainly paint the outline of a very different picture from Dr. Seuss’s perspective.
At 02:37 PM 1/20/2006, you wrote:

At 08:23 AM 1/20/2006, Dave Riddle wrote:

Quite a few years ago my Dad gave me a particularly un-PC book as a gift.  “Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel”.  If an Editorial cartoonists was to even try a similar toned/drawn cartoon with it’s unflattering “national” stereotypes today I dare say he would be fired by his paper due to the condemnation that the PC crowd would heap on him.

In fairness, while the caricatures may not be very acceptable today, many of the cartoons were protesting against segregation and businesses refusing to allow Negros to work along side whites.