Maligning poverty's prophet: Puck, Henry George and the New York mayoral campaign of 1886

From: Journal of American Culture | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Introduction

Puck magazine's caricatures of Henry George (HG), the internationally known American social reformer who ran for mayor of New York in 1886, provided an insightful and unique commentary on his controversial crusade to reform the capitalist-industrialist system. Its graphic discourse on George not only reflected and reinforced its largely middle-class readers' fears that radicalism was at the heart of the labor movement, but clearly revealed a preference for a more conservative and elitist approach to resolving urban/industrial ills. The magazine's cartoonists were obsessed with ...

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