[Rarebooks] FS: Caricatures of George Washington & the Revolution

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “George Washington's War in Caricature and Print”

By Kenneth Baker.
Published in London by Grub Street Publishing in 2009.

DISCUSSION: “This was the five-year war that made America a nation. Indeed
President Barack Obama referred to it in his Inaugural Address; and every
American child is steeped in its history. But all too often the fog of
myth shrouds the reality from all sides of the conflict. In these pages,
the path to war is starkly documented by British caricatures of
politicians and generals, for the most part favourable to the Colonists.
For George III, Lord North and Britain the war itself was a disaster, but
one which need not have happened. The problem of coping with a country
5,000 miles away with a tradition of representative government, a free
press and a spirit of independence were just too much. But they, together
with Generals Howe, Burgoyne, Cornwallis and others, were mercilessly
lampooned. Washington, the hero, is spared, although there are surprising
and dark elements to the American victory illustrated here. Kenneth Baker
has used contemporary material, not the romantic patriotic pictures of the
19th Century. He has drawn upon his own experiences of high politics, and
his personal collection of caricatures, as well as the libraries and
historical societies of the East Coast. These provide vivid and memorable
images made at the very time that the Americans and French were fighting
the British and Germans on their road to victory.”

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 9.5”x12”, 224 pages, color illustrations, dust
jacket.

CONDITION NOTES: In fine, clean condition.

PRICE: $50. -

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