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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman Jessie Kratz and Martha Grove Highly topical and pertinent in the current climate, this book offers a humorous look at the American electoral process. It follows the campaign trail, from the candidate's initial decision to enter the race to the final tallying of votes, with the cartoons of Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, Clifford K. Berryman. A staff political cartoonist for the Washington Post and the Washington Evening Star for the first half of the twentieth century, Berryman drew thousands of cartoons commenting on the candidates, campaigns, issues and elections of his era, highlighting both specific and timeless aspects of American election campaign. Political cartoons are unlike any other form of political commentary. With simple pen strokes, they foreshadow the future, poke fun at the past, and imply hidden motives in ways which elude written or spoken reporting. Berryman was renowned for his exacting portraiture and political observations. Throughout his extraordinary career, he drew every presidential administration from Benjamin Harrison to Harry Truman. He satirized both Democratic and Republican political figures but never used outlandish caricature, which won him great respect from politicians. Published in association with the National Archives, Washington, DC. 96 pages / 254 x 210 mm / 65 illustrations / hardback ISBN 978-0-85667-652-9  Online price: £16.00 / €24.00 More Information A Washington institution, Berryman's fifty-three years of daily front-page drawings were internationally renowned and his cartoons provide an unparalleled insight into the American political process. Although faces and personalities change and specific issues evolve with each new election year, Berryman's cartoons illustrate how elections in America have remained remarkably unchanged. The Authors: Jessie Kratz is an archives specialist with the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Martha Grove is an archivist with the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives in Washington, DC.