"Herblock's Special for Today" Book

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By Herbert Block. New York: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1958. First Edition FIRST PRINTING (stated). Hardcover. Very good plus … Read more By Herbert Block. New York: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1958. First Edition FIRST PRINTING (stated). Hardcover. Very good plus in plastic cover. 255pp., Herblock's cartoons reproduced throughout: 430 cartoons. Blurb: "Herblock's eye-view of the present administration [Eisenhower] and of American political behavior, at home and abroad, over the last three years." Mid-century American politics and history; social commentary. Corners bumped. Signatures on end papers. First five pages lightly rippled at top edge. Otherwise, interior is clean and tight.

Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy.

During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors. See less