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Cartoons Go to WarBill Mauldin's unflinching vision has yet to be beat.

By Ben YagodaPosted Friday, April 25, 2008, at 7:07 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay on Bill Mauldin's one-of-a-kind war cartoons.

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Ben Yagoda teaches journalism at the University of Delaware and is working on a book about the rise of memoir culture. He is the author of When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse and other books.

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