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First edition. America's greatest political cartoonist is revived and represented in this volume, including more than 200 of his best and most evocative cartoons, together in this striking capsule history of America's "Gilded Age". The inventiveness and power of these drawings are as evident today as they were more than a century ago.. Although, the cartoons speak for themselves as symbols that have held an important place in the American political imagination since their creation, Morton Keller, well-known historian of the period from the Civil War up to the turn of the century, provides an accompanying essay that places Nast in his times, and comments on individual cartoons. Dust jacket with chipping at corners. Price clipped. x, 354, 4 pages, with 241 illustrations. cloth, dust jacket. 4to..