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A NOTE ON THE DESIGN

The design inspiration for Unraveling Freedom is drawn from the propaganda posters of World War I. You’ll see examples of these bold, graphic pieces on Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. The title text for the book is set in Trade Gothic and Marmalade, and the body text is set in Minion Pro. The palette for the book echoes the colors of the American flag—red, white, and blue. To add new life to old photographs and to draw the eye to the central subject matter of an image, some of the pictures in the book (see, for example, Chapter 3) are silhouetted with a special digital technique that pulls the subject of the photograph forward in the frame, while the background is tinted with a color. The colored diagonal design elements, and the frequent angling of the images contribute to a sense of disruption, of things being off balance. This feeling echoes the turbulent sentiment of the times, brought on by the first global war and the erosion of liberties on the home front.

Echoes of history. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States (closing endpapers, headline news) prompted the nation’s entry into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; almost a century earlier, the sinking of the Lusitania helped propel the United States toward combat during World War I. The New York Times coverage of the 1915 maritime disaster (opening endpapers) reproduced a German warning of possible attacks (lower right, headlined “NOTICE!”).

The graphic foreword by Ted Rall, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, evokes the era of political cartooning that flourished during World War I.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bausum, Ann.

Unraveling freedom: the battle for democracy on the home front during World War I / by Ann Bausum.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-1-4263-0728-7

1. United States—Politics and government—1913-1921—Juvenile literature. 2. World War, 1914-1918—Social aspects—United States—Juvenile literature. 3. German Americans—Social conditions—20th century—Juvenile literature. I. Title.

E780.B38 2010

940.3’73—dc22

2010010631

Version: 2017-07-05