World War II

FROM THE PEN OF DR. SEUSS

was not yet the iconic children’s book author we all know and love—he wouldn’t become that until after became a bestseller in 1957—but Theodor Seuss Geisel made his voice heard in the months before the United States entered World War II. As an editorial cartoonist forthe man the world came to know as Dr. Seuss used his skills to alert America about the growing threat of world war.

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