What Corruption Looks Like
Gilded Age cartoons take on machine politics
I didn’t really have a mental picture of what President James Garfield looked like, but I didn’t expect him to be jacked.
When this cartoon was produced by Currier and Ives in 1880, Garfield was almost 50. In real life, he looked like this; I suppose it’s hard to tell what kind of guns he had hidden under those sleeves.
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