Rockwell's Four Freedoms

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About the cover: Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous "Four Freedoms" speech delivered to Congress on the eve of World War II, Norman Rockwell created four paintings depicting simple fam- ily scenes, illustrating freedoms Americans often take for granted. Rockwell spent six months painting The Four Freedoms, which were published in a series of Saturday Evening Post issues in 1943, accompanied by short essays from four distinguished writers. The U.S. Government subsequently issued posters of Rockwell's paintings in a highly successful war bond campaign that raised more than $132 million for the war effort. Rockwell's homey depictions of Roosevelt's abstract concepts were widely …