Herblock's Presidents -- Exhibit on Library's 2nd Floor.

     On the second floor in the atrium there is the traveling exhibit on "Herblock" the longtime Washington Post cartoonist.   
     From the stock market crash in 1929 through the new millennium beginning in the year 2000, editorial cartoonist Herb Block chronicled the nation's political history, caricaturing thirteen American presidents from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, and 1979) and a fourth with Washington Post colleagues for public service during the Watergate investigation (1973). He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2000, the Library of Congress named him a "Living Legend" in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the nation. Numerous honorary degrees from institutions nationwide, most recently a 1999 Doctor of Arts from Harvard University, suggest academia has forgiven him for leaving college early to pursue a career as an editorial cartoonist. And well it should, for no cartoonist or commentator in America has done more to educate and inform the public during the past seven decades than Herb Block.  Herb Block died on October 7, 2001. 

There is also a video that came with the exhibit of other cartoonists and associates of Herblock that will be available at the Circ desk on reserve, in case anyone is interested. It can't leave the building but is watchable on any computer as well as DVD players.

The Library of Congress' Herblock Online Exhibitions
Herblock's History
Herblock's Gift
Enduring Outrage
 
Web Sites for today's political cartoonists. 
Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index Home Page.
Townhall.Com's Political Cartoons
AAEC Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.