Well, the Civil War was going on back then, and he was a German immigrant who drew for Harper's Weekly when Harper's Weekly was really growing in their readership with a lot of pro-union political cartoons.

当时美国正在进行内战，他是一位德国移民， 在《哈珀周》群快速增长期间为该杂志绘制了许多支持联邦的政漫画。

Was he a great novelist with profound insights into human society, or was he a mediocre writer whose influential political satires have only served to undermine the political causes he championed?

他是一有着深刻洞察力的伟大小说家，还是一的作家，其有影响力的政讽刺作品反而削弱了他所倡导的政治事业？

It was the next major event in his life that was to mark him forever as a political writer.

接下来生命中的重大事件永远将他标记为一名政作家。