In the 1920s the USA was blessed with, arguably, some of the most gifted cartoonists in the world. With cartoons produced concurrently to the event, we have none of the hindsight which can cloud much historical interpretation - we see the situation as it was seen by the people of the time. As an Americanist historian, I am fascinated by the way in which it is possible to follow an event through the cartoons which were produced as the event unfolded, often over years. Historians have been notably lax in using the medium of cartoons for historical research but, happily, that is changing gradually as a growing awareness of the value of cartoons as a basic resource. If one believes the old adage, that journalism is just the first edition of history, it must be true that political cartoons published in newspapers are one of the most vibrant manifestations of history in the making. His cartoons were published from 1917 to 1949 in the New York Herald Tribune.Dry humor: the American cartoonists' view of Prohibition by Dr Joyce A. By 1919, Darling returned a final time to Des Moines where he continued his career as a cartoonist, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1924 and again in 1943. Three years later, in 1916, he returned to New York and accepted a position with the New York Herald Tribune. In 1911, he moved to New York and worked with the New York Globe but went back to Des Moines in 1913. Following his marriage to Genevieve Pendleton in 1906, he began work with the Des Moines Register and Leader. In 1900, Ding became a reporter for the Sioux City Journal. Ding Darling was an American cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes. Ken Browne the good wishes of Herbert Hoover." Additionally inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To the Ken Brownes With warm appreciation of friendship and kindred association over many years to you and all those who like Hoover hold high respect for the responsibilities of good citizenship in practice as well as idealism.
Presentation copy, inscribed by Hoover on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. First edition of "Ding" Darling's editorial cartoons regarding President Hoover.
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