The world according to Ronald Reagan /
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| Format: | Map |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle, WA :
AA Graphics, Inc.,
1982.
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| Item Description: | Cartoon map. "PC237 / The world according to Reagan." Depicts the United States and the Soviet Union wildly out of scale with the rest of the world. Reagan in full gunfighter regalia stands astride a hypertrophied California while a dour Brezhnev, wearing what appears to be a bear skin, stands at the ready. The two men gaze warily at one another, hands hovering above their six-shooters. The rest of the map offers an amusing, albeit ungenerous take on the world as seen through the eyes of Reagan. There's black-and-white thinking, with the USSR labeled "Godless communists, liars and spies;" American-centrism, with Saudi Arabia labeled "Our oil" and the Panama Canal as "Our canal;" and cheap stereotypes such as "Japan Corporation," "Mariachi Land" (Mexico), and "Banana Land" (South America), even many of America's allies come off poorly: Canada is "Acidrainia," the Western Europeans are "Socialists and Pacifists," and Australia has been reduced to "Kangaroos." This map was drawn by David Horsey, at the time a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the "Seattle Post Intelligencer". The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy contains a bookseller's description. The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy is part of the Maps of Imaginary Places Collection. Cartographic material. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 map : one color ; 56 x 85 cm, on sheet 58 x 89 cm |