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290 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
“It’s interesting to know that the confidence of ignorance has not died out!”It is difficult to convey the importance, for those of you not from the U.S. or who know little of the nation’s history of the 1950s-60s, of what the comic strip Pogo represented in American life. Back then the comics pages were as integral to a daily read of the newspaper as the headlines or opinion pages. Ostensibly, they were an escape. In reality, they were a mirror. Had they been in the op-ed pages, they might have been uncomfortable. But since they were in the “funny pages,” there was a buffer, there was a deniability some used to deny it’s essential observations about American society.