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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

byBrian Jay Jones

Becoming Dr. Seuss is Brian Jay Jones's biographical portrait of theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of biography & autobiography. Attention to evidence keeps the discussion anchored while allowing disagreement, uncertainty, and unintended consequences to remain visible. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

496

ISBN

9781524742799