Picture Power; Cartoonists wield a mighty pen, especially in election years.(political cartoons)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: March 10, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Dan Gilgoff

The drawing that turned Thomas Nast into the most powerful political cartoonist in American history wasn't the least bit funny. Published in Harper's Weekly in September 1864, it showed a triumphant Confederate soldier shaking hands with a peg-legged Union veteran as a woman wept over a grave of Union heroes from a "Useless War." Titled "Compromise With the South," the cartoon blasted the anti-Civil War peace platform adopted by the Democrats.

Facing Democrat George McClellan in that fall's election, Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party printed up ...

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