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Thomas Nast
When Donkey and Elephant First Clashed
The two-party system, undreamt of by the founders of the Republic, has been one of its basic shaping forces ever since their time
HIS GRANDSON RECALLS:
To his contemporaries Thomas Nast was unquestionably America’s greatest and most effective political cartoonist, attacking corruption with a brilliant and often vitriolic pen, harrying the bosses, creating the political symbols that still remain the emblems of our two major political parties. Read more >>