Norman Rockwell's Portrait of Democracy and the Editor From Kansas Helped Make It Possible

Norman Rockwell's Portrait of Democracy and the Editor From Kansas Helped Make It Possible

Republished with permission from Kansas Reflector, by Max McCoy The Saturday Evening Post was in trouble. In March 1942 it had published “The Case Against the Jews,” a polemic by 33-year-old journalist and conscientious objector Milton Mayer. Two years before, also in the pages of the Post, Mayer had urged the United States to stay out of World War II because another global conflict would do more harm than good. Now the young activist, who was o…