Sunset Magazine November 1914

Sunset Magazine November 1914 which features two WW1 op-ed articles, one in support of the Kaiser and one against the Kaiser. The cover is dominated by huge cream "SUNSET" lettering on a warm amber ground, with the bold headline "IS HE MAD?" and the Kaiser's spiked helmet rising through the masthead, giving the issue a dramatic wartime mood. Published just months after World War I erupted in Europe in the summer of 1914, this issue shows a Western American magazine grappling with a distant war — staging the Kaiser debate for its readers while the United States remained neutral. By then well beyond its railroad-promotion origins, Sunset was positioning itself as a magazine of ideas for the West.