Dr. Seuss, We Hardly Knew Ye

 Dr. Seuss, appreciated.  From a comment below. Turns out the GOP doesn’t know who they’re talking about:

Geisel early on had been denied membership to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Dartmouth because people in the fraternity believed that he was Jewish. So in order to disabuse them of this perception, he created images in which he produced images of a stereotypical Jewish couple. He also constructed ethnic stereotypes of blacks, the Irish, the Italians, even Germans were sent up in some of his early contributions to the Jack-O-Lantern.

After he’d turned all of those resources into a reputation, from 1925 to 1940 he was one of the best known adult humorists and satirists. He contributed regularly to magazines such as The New Yorker and Judge, and developed a reputation as a quick wit. He made most of his money by producing ads for an insecticide called Flit, and he produced an ad campaign that used the punch line, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” that entered into popular culture. Fred Allen would use it as a punch line, as did Jack Benny. It ended up in Broadway musicals. During the Depression, Geisel had what today would probably be the equivalent of a $500,000 income because of the work he had done for Madison Avenue.

But then World War II brought Germany into the spotlight again. How did Seuss respond?

Geisel was enraged that Germany was once again playing the bully in Europe. He devoted all of his gifts as a political satirist to getting the United States to abandon its isolationist stance and become invested in ending Nazism. Geisel got radicalized. He suddenly became aware that the work he had done as an artist in New York, in which he regularly skewed ethnic minorities for a joke, was fuel for a form of thinking that he now opposed. And a lot of those progressive sentiments found their way into his children’s books. (emphasis added)

What about after the war?

After World War II, Hollywood wanted Geisel. He was hired to write a script for Rebel Without A Cause. But in 1953, his wife Helen began to develop a debilitating disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and the helplessness he experienced led to another deep reevaluation of what he was doing. He wanted to enter into an art form in which unconditioned laughter emerges out of the sheer fun of making fun, and he associates this form with children’s books. In creating propaganda, he was creating enemies. Now he wanted to get the war mentality out of his psyche and out of America’s consciousness by creating children’s books.

Affirming what the comments here said earlier:  Geisel would be fine with these 6 titles being retired.