Although best known for rhyming “cat” with “hat” and “one fish, two fish” with “red fish, blue fish,” “Dr.” Theodore Geisel ― better known as Dr. Seuss ― was also an incredibly talented politicla cartoonist. A decade before his more well know children’s books, he had published hundreds of cartoons during WW II rendering Hitler, Y’S as a mad scientist and castigating the American governments growing ambivalence to the evolving genocide in Nazi Europe even before the true extent of the horror was fully understood.
I guess this is not a great posting for Purim but every time I hear Suess mentioned, I feel compelled to remind folks of his greater contributions than iconic children’s books.
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