Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front

Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front

The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation.
â€œThe real war,â€ said Walt Whitman, â€œwill never get in the books.â€ During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the â€œreal warâ€ came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Pattonâ€™s pledge to â€œthrow his ass in jailâ€ to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, â€œUp Front,â€ to the pages of Stars and Stripes. â€œUp Frontâ€ featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who livedâ€•and diedâ€•in it. This taut, lushly illustrated biographyâ€•the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldinâ€•is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: â€œIf itâ€™s big, hit it.â€
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber ill
ReleaseDate 2008-02-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393061833

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