Existing comment:
Freedom of Speech
The Saturday Evening Post, February 21, 1943, pp 12-13
Text by Booth Tarkington
In the winter of 1943, The Saturday Evening Post reproduced Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings in four successive issues that followed the sequence of President Roosevelt's 1941 address. Each image appeared opposite an essay on the top by an accomplished American writer. In creative kinship with Rockwell, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and dramatist Booth Tarkington often wrote of life in small Midwestern towns. Tarkington's literary parable describes an imaginary conversation between Hitler and Mussolini about purging freedom of speech from their countries. |