To us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his exhibits in the herblock gallery. Herb block was a midwestern born cartoonist. He began his career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start. And he was radicalized, not leftleft, put pushed him further towards the center but a Great Depression and then the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company, the Newspaper Enterprise Association which was situated in cleveland, ohio. And then 1946, right after the second world war, he joining the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his career, and he died about six weeks after his last cartoon appeared in the Washington Post. His last cartoon appeared on august 26th, 2001. And he died just a week shy of his 92nd birthday in october. The library of congress has the herbblock collection. We had about 16,000 of his editorial cartoons, but we have nearly all of the work he produced for the Washington
8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Each week, american artifacts taking viewers into archives, museums and historic sights around the country. The library of congress the largest collection of political cartoons of herbert block known as herblock. Herblocks career spanned 20 years. 72 yores. Years. The librarys sarah duke talked to us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his exhibits in the herblock gallery. Herb block was a midwestern born cartoonist. He began his career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start. And he was radicalized, not leftleft, put pushed him further towards the center but a Great Depression and then the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company, the Newspaper Enterprise Association which was situated in cleveland, ohio. And then 1946, right after the second world war, he joining the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his career, and he died about six weeks afte
100,000, with a grand price of 5,000. For more information go to our website, studentcam. Org. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, mu seems and Historic Sites around the country. The library of congress houses the largest collection of political cartoons by herbert block known as herb block. His career spanned 72 years, and he covered president s from Herbert Hoover to george w. Bush. The librarys sara duke talked to us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his cartoons many on exhibit in the herblock gallery. He began his working career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start, and he was radicalized not like leftleft, but it pushed him further toward the center, by the Great Depression and the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company the newspaper enterprise, which was situated in cleveland ohio. Then he joined the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his car
And now on cspan2s booktv more television for serious readers. Peter copeland is author of a new book called finding the news. He was a journalist for over 40 years. At the time he was a war correspondent and then covering National Politics in washington, d. C. Whats the difference . National politics in washington, d. C. , about the same. I pretty much covered politics everything in washington for 14 years when i was a bureau attribute achieve. The difference between being a war correspondent for the many years you were an coming over here and covering National Politics in washington, the largest differences between the two . The stakes are a lot higher when youre covering the war. People who talk about the war and its a battle and its not really. Its just an argument among likeminded people. Its a lot more dangerous for everybody when youre covering a real war. You are with Scripps Howard service managers. You started in chicago. Talk about your beginnings. I started as a night beat
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