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“American Battle of Dorking; Or, H. G. at the White House”

Topic:
The Democratic National Convention
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
June 29, 1872, pp. 517-518
 
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One of the most ambitious ventures of the opening phase of Nast’s anti-Greeley campaign was the “American Battle of Dorking; Or H. G. at the White House,” with 13 small cuts by Nast illustrating an early comic essay by 25-year-old Max Adeler (pen name of American humorist Charles Heber Clark).  Ostensibly written from a vantage point in the future, and relating the defeat and downfall of the United States after the election of President Horace Greeley, it took up slightly over a page in the June 29, 1872 issue of Harper’s Weekly

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