Beschreibung
This volume covers main phases of United States history over
the span of a century, 1918 – 2018. Starting with fights
for „Americanism“ during World War I until the
„America-First“ movement of our times, there are, among
others, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoons about
these topics: Ku Klux Klan, Foreign Policy, Great
Depression, Lynching Practices, Labor Conditions, War
Productions, Truman’s Administration, Korean War, Racial
Integration, Vietnam War, Watergate Scandal, Death Penalty,
Ronald Reagan, Clinton’s Sex Affair, Terrorist Attacks, Iraq
War, Deadly Hurricanes, Financial Crashes, Washington
Establishment, Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is
professor emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum,
Germany.
