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Thomas Nast’s Harper’s Weekly cartoons helped land Tweed in jail. (Tweed once tried to pay Nast off.) When Tweed fled to Spain in 1875, he was caught—by officials who recognized him from a ...
The fury cartoonists inspire is as old as the form. In 1871, William “Boss” Tweed, the political master of New York’s Tammany Hall, is said to have groused about caricatures of him drawn by Thomas ...
Halloran describes Nast’s rise and fall at Harper’s, his relentless campaign against the corrupt New York politician Boss Tweed, his idolization of President Grant, as well as his role as ...
German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam.
It has been estimated that these men stole from $75,000,000 to $200,000,000 from the NYC treasury. The German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902) referred to Tweed and Sweeny as Tweedledee and ...
Abolitionist cartoonist Thomas Nast had a big role in manufacturing the US version of the Christmas patriarch.
The phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword” may have found its truest embodiment in cartoonist Thomas Nast, who was born today in 1840. Without ever leaving his desk at Harper’s Weekly, Nast ...