Before he was a beloved children's author, Dr Seuss was a political cartoon. Those are words to inspire terror, because we all no that there is no such thing as A Good Cartoon, and that in the infinite parade of Lesters, McCoys, Asays, and Ramirezes, There is Always More and it is Always Worse. Thank the almighty Bors that Seuss remains Seussian, even when dealing with various serious subjects like Hitler and WW2.

Really, there is nothing as delightfully Suessian as Hitler's dachsund powered war machine stalling in the Russian winter, or Benito Mussolini as a propped up, battered, relic addressing an empty square. Seuss goes after fascists overseas and at home, excoriating isolationists like Charles Limbaugh for abandoning the world to monsters, while at the same time demanding an all-out effort to win the war, by bringing Labor and African Americans into the war effort. The only sour note are the depictions of the Japanese. It's a shame that a man could produce a cartoon about driving out the bug of racial prejudice one week, and then show the Japanese as slant-eyed monkey devils the next. But that's why history is history. An essential book for adult lovers of Dr Seuss, political cartoon aficionados, and WW2 buffs.