{"product_id":"th-nast-his-period-and-his-pictures","title":"Th Nast His Period and His Pictures","description":"\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-extra-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"c52mgd-b0f8ie-73rwub-fbddlr\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTh Nast His Period and His Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e is a reprint from before 1923. Thomas \u003c\/span\u003eNast, born in Bavaria in 1840, came to New York in 1846 and at fifteen became draftsman for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. He was sent to London by the New York Illustrated News in 1860 and accompanied Garibaldi as artist of the Illustrated London News and Le Monde Illustre in Paris. Returning to New York in 1861, he became a staff artist of Harper's Weekly, with pungent war drawings which greatly influenced public opinion. His fame rests largely on his dramatic cartoons exposing the Tweed Ring in New York City, notably \"Let Us Prey\" and \"Tiger Loose,\" reproduced in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\nNast invented the Tammany Tiger, the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey. Profoundly moved by every public issue, he produced three thousand pictures in 25 years. If Thomas Nast was merely a cartoonist, then Abraham Lincoln was merely a politician. Genius and passion lifted them both far above the ranks. The comparison is not an idle one; when Nast retired at the end of the nineteenth century, a New York correspondent said: \"The pressure of the great issues of the war raised up a Lincoln, a Grant and a Nast. Lincoln broad in love, firm in purpose; Grant brave and unyielding; Nast an inspired artist to encourage the hearts of the rulers and the soldiers of the people.\" Grant himself said \"Two things elected me, the sword of Sheridan and the pencil of Thomas Nast.\"\n\n\u003cb\u003eOut Of Print. Condition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFine Minus. \u003c\/b\u003eBook 's lower spine edge is curved down with light rubbing. Tipped corners and lightly soiled page edges on the bottom. Cover and edge wear.","brand":"Pyne Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59642423279902,"sku":"RB6122","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB6122-th-nast-period-pictures.jpg?v=1784511082","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/th-nast-his-period-and-his-pictures","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}