Thomas Nast

Fiona Deans Halloran teaches history at Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Extremely effective in illuminating Nast as an artist and an individual. . . . Will inform as well as amuse"". - Galveston Daily News ""One of the great pleasures of Halloran's biography is watching Nast go from being a mere artist to a political-cartooning superstar"". - Bookforum ""Halloran has produced a biography exploring Nast's drawings in the context of his life as an artist whose drawings had a strong Republican slant. She shows convincingly how Nast expressed his identity both in his sentimental home scenes and his cutting political satires"". - H-SHGAPE ""This book brings [Thomas Nast] back to his highly deserved place in American cultural history"". - Journal of American Culture ""Thomas Nast may be known as 'The Father of Modern Political Cartoons,' but history teacher Halloran's thorough biography of the 19th-century journalist is much more than mere caricature. . . . [A] rich portrait of the multifaceted artist, social crusader, political commentator, and devoted father and husband"". - Publishers Weekly ""[An] intriguing and rich portrait"". - Journal of American History ""Recommended. With reservations. Graduate students, researchers, professionals"". - Choice ""[A] bright book"". - Michael Kammen, Los Angeles Review of Books ""Halloran has contributed to the literature on nineteenth-century social and political observers with an in-depth examination into the life of Nast as an artist and political analyst who created masterpieces of commentary"". - The Historian ""If you have any interest in Thomas Nast, or in late 19th century American politics or political cartoons, Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons is definitely an important purchase"". - Fred Patten ""[A] cogent and highly readable biography"". - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly ""The most exhaustive and well-researched look at Nast to date"". - Salt Lake Tribune ""Halloran's new biography of Nast fills a conspicuous void by supplying an engaging and erudite account of the life and times of the celebrated artist"". - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society ""This detailed biography will appeal to historians of the Gilded Age and to scholars interested in the development of the political cartoon. . . . The book is beautifully illustrated with Nast's work"". - Library Journal