The Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
“Prescient … searing social-political art.”
—The New York Times“A visceral reminder of the power of art as resistance.”
—CounterPunch“[A] powerful and impactful interweaving of punchy art and precise words.”
—The Morning Starabout the bookabout
This fierce, smart interweaving of punch-packing art and powerful, precise words lays bare the authoritarianism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that populate the political landscape of the United States today.
Designed especially to inform and activate younger readers, these pages pay particular attention to the threats facing the most basic tenets of American democracy, exemplified by the attempted stealing of elections, violence on the streets of the capital, and the evasion of legal consequences by the most powerful in the land. Beyond the crimes of Trump and his cohort, The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide explores the threads of fascism in U.S. history and shows their baleful influence on today’s foreign policy, especially support for genocide in Gaza, and the brutal treatment of asylum seekers along the U.S./Mexican border.
Perfectly complemented by Stephen Eisenman’s crystalline text, Sue Coe’s art is, in turn, tough, satirical, bracing, sweet, and sober. It secures her place in a pantheon that features the zine illustration of Art Spiegelman, the realism of Philip Pearlstein, the caricatures of Honoré Daumier, the expressionism of Käthe Kollwitz, and the Dadaism of John Heartfield.
“The most clear, generous, and sincere of any recent book I have read on fascism and anti-fascism, which includes work by commentators, from liberal to anarchist to so-called conservative, such as Jeff Sharlet, Federico Finchelstein, Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Mark Bray, Maria Ressa, Paris Marx, Elie Mystal, Joan Braune, Heather Cox Richardson, Bill Kristol, and Masha Gessen. All, of course, argue against fascism, but until recently, very few historians, political scholars, or pundits have been as delightfully willing to punch fascism in the nose as Coe and Eisenman are.”
—Andrew Tonkovich, Los Angeles Review of Books
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The Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
“Prescient … searing social-political art.”
—The New York Times“A visceral reminder of the power of art as resistance.”
—CounterPunch“[A] powerful and impactful interweaving of punchy art and precise words.”
—The Morning Starabout the bookabout
This fierce, smart interweaving of punch-packing art and powerful, precise words lays bare the authoritarianism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that populate the political landscape of the United States today.
Designed especially to inform and activate younger readers, these pages pay particular attention to the threats facing the most basic tenets of American democracy, exemplified by the attempted stealing of elections, violence on the streets of the capital, and the evasion of legal consequences by the most powerful in the land. Beyond the crimes of Trump and his cohort, The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide explores the threads of fascism in U.S. history and shows their baleful influence on today’s foreign policy, especially support for genocide in Gaza, and the brutal treatment of asylum seekers along the U.S./Mexican border.
Perfectly complemented by Stephen Eisenman’s crystalline text, Sue Coe’s art is, in turn, tough, satirical, bracing, sweet, and sober. It secures her place in a pantheon that features the zine illustration of Art Spiegelman, the realism of Philip Pearlstein, the caricatures of Honoré Daumier, the expressionism of Käthe Kollwitz, and the Dadaism of John Heartfield.
“The most clear, generous, and sincere of any recent book I have read on fascism and anti-fascism, which includes work by commentators, from liberal to anarchist to so-called conservative, such as Jeff Sharlet, Federico Finchelstein, Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Mark Bray, Maria Ressa, Paris Marx, Elie Mystal, Joan Braune, Heather Cox Richardson, Bill Kristol, and Masha Gessen. All, of course, argue against fascism, but until recently, very few historians, political scholars, or pundits have been as delightfully willing to punch fascism in the nose as Coe and Eisenman are.”
—Andrew Tonkovich, Los Angeles Review of Books
About The Author / Editor
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