How Much Have The Culture Wars Earned Dr. Seuss This Year? As It Turns Out, A ‘Whole Awful Lot’

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How Much Have The Culture Wars Earned Dr. Seuss This Year? As It Turns Out, A ‘Whole Awful Lot.’

Copies of “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”, “If I Ran the Zoo” and “McElligot's Pool”—three of the books by Dr. Suess that will no longer be published.“They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

They can thank the outrage for that: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted a video of himself reading all ofon social media; Senator Ted Cruz is selling signed copies of the book for campaign donations, raising $125,000 in the first day of the effort—he credited “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

“They said things like, ‘My children each want a copy of this beloved book’,” says Justin Colussy-Estes, store manager of Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia, of the calls he got following the cancellations. “And the list that they give just happened to exactly match the list of books that were pulled from the market.”

 

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