"""The Butter Battle Book"" by Dr. Seuss was a commentary on what real-life ""war""?"
The Butter Battle Book The Butter Battle Book The Butter Battle Book is a rhyming story written by Dr. Seuss. It was published by Random House on January 12, 1984. It is an anti-war story; specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. "The Butter Battle Book" was a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. This book was written during the Cold War era, and reflects the concerns of the time, especially the perceived possibility that all life on Earth could be destroyed in a nuclear war. It can also be seen as a
Dr. Seuss Goes to War advantage, making it the plain universal language we needed to hear." The book led to a number of museum exhibitions about Seuss's political work. Dr. Seuss Goes to War Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel is a 1999 book written by Richard H. Minear, containing Dr. Seuss's political cartoons created during World War II. Creating his cartoons for the liberal New York magazine "PM", Seuss denounced Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and was highly critical of non-interventionists ("isolationists"), most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed US entry into the war. One cartoon