Publisher's Synopsis
Tom Engelhardt was the editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "He created cartoons that took America's emotional, political, and social temperature during some of the nation's most turbulent decades. In the 1960s his cartoons covered the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the moon landing. In the 1970s he witnessed Watergate, the fall of Richard Nixon, turmoil in the Middle East, and the ongoing Cold War. During the 1980s he commented on the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, environmental issues, and the fall of the Soviet Union. In the 1990s, a decade that also saw the presidential election, reelection, impeachment and acquitical of Bill Clinton, as well as the rise of global terrorism. One of Engelhardt's last cartoons documented the world-changing terrorist attacks of the new millennium on. September 11, 2001.".