The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal

The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal

The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal

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The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal

1935

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In Eshbaugh’s ‘political’ animated cartoon world, the Democratic platform is destroyed by its own swallowing of the NRA (National Recovery Act), sending the Donkey representing the party into a dizzying disastrous bucking fury (thanks to a ‘liberal’ added dose of Russian vodka).

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