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Geography for the GOP

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Title:
Geography for the GOP
Alternate Title:
Geography for the GOP
Collection:
Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
Creator:
Nitsche, Erik
Date:
1939
Posted Date:
2017-04-14
ID Number:
1278.01
Collection Number:
8548
File Name:
PJM_1278_01.jpg
Style/Period:
1920 - 1939
Subject:
Politics & Government
Satirical
Unusual Projection
Measurement:
36 x 28 map (centimeters, height x width)
Notes:
A satirical map of the US "peopled with leaders, angels, hopefuls" seeking the Republican nomination to run against FDR in the 1940 Presidential election. Interestingly, the 15 candidates illustrated did not include the eventual Republican nominee, Wendall Willkie of Indiana. The caricatures of the possible nominees are relatively benign. Henry Luce, the publisher of Time, Life and Fortune, was sharply critical of the New Deal, and personally hostile to Roosevelt. After the President's death, he remarked that it was "my duty to go on hating him." Brinkley 2010, 193.

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Source:
Fortune Magazine, August 1939, pp. 32-33.
Cite As:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Archival Collection:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
Format:
Image
Rights:
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