{"id":1350,"date":"2012-09-18T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2012-09-18T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:38:36","slug":"book-of-the-month-for-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/09\/18\/book-of-the-month-for-september-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Month for September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The title page from Up Front by Bill Mauldin, 1945 (D 745.2 .M34 1945, Rare Book Collection).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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William Henry “Bill” Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist.\u00a0 He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1945 at the age of 23 for his World War II depictions of\u00a0 the battle weary\u00a0soldiers (or “dogfaces”):\u00a0Willie and Joe.\u00a0 These two\u00a0soldiers are based on real-life people:\u00a0 Irving Richtel, Mauldin’s friend and comarade, served as the model for\u00a0Willie, and Mauldin served as Joe.\u00a0 The latter character is the one best known as G.I. Joe.<\/p>\n

The University Libraries’ Up Front <\/strong><\/em>copy is a first edition that contains 161 of Mauldin’s famous wartime cartoons.\u00a0 It is an association copy; a book that is dedicated and signed by the author.<\/p>\n

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Shown above is the front cover of Up Front<\/strong><\/em>. The khaki colored cloth binding is decorated with an army green pictorial of the infamous Willie and Joe.\u00a0 The title and author’s name are\u00a0also stamped in army green on the spine.<\/p>\n

The below inscription is located on\u00a0the book’s front free endpaper\u00a0and refers to the cartoon on page 225.<\/p>\n

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The cartoon referred to by Mauldin in his dedication:<\/p>\n

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Mauldin was wounded in 1943 in Italy at the battle of Monte Cassino. After being wounded, he and his cartoons enjoyed an increased popularity with the regular soldiers, but less so with the higher ranking officers.\u00a0 Mauldin had planned to have Willie and Joe die at the end of World War II, but the U.S. miliary newspaper, Stars and Stripes<\/em>, was able to change his mind.<\/p>\n

Mauldin tried his hand at various careers after the war, but none gave him the popularity or fame as his cartoons of Willie and Joe.\u00a0 Mauldin returned to creating editorial cartoons and received his second Pulitzer Prize in 1958. Mauldin was the recipient of several military honors and medals, and after his death in 2003, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Henry “Bill” Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist.\u00a0 He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1945 at the age of 23 for his World War II depictions of\u00a0 the battle weary\u00a0soldiers (or “dogfaces”):\u00a0Willie and Joe.\u00a0 These two\u00a0soldiers are based on real-life people:\u00a0 Irving Richtel, Mauldin’s friend and comarade, served as the model for\u00a0Willie, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}