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By far one of the best books that I have read in a long time. I love the questions that this book raises about humanity and survival, as well as authority. Not only is it impossible to put down, it keeps you thinking for long after you have finished reading it.
Recommended by Dawn
This book will rock your socks off, everyone needs to read it.
Recommended by Amanda
With a fearless heroine and an intense storyline putting this thought-provoking book down will be near impossible. Each page is packed with suspense propelling you to the end, you’ll find yourself wanting more when you’re through.
Recommended by Sonia
The future of the United States has been transformed into a world called Panem-a place divided into 12 districts & a capitol. Each year they hold annual Hunger Games in which a boy and girl from each district are forced to compete. In a televised arena each will fight to the death till one remains. When her younger sister is chosen, 16-year-old Katniss volunteers to take her spot knowing it’s a potential death sentence. This is a great read, and keeps you wanting more at the end of each chapter.
Recommended by Jen
Set in an America of the future, the Hunger Games is a strange hybrid of reality tv, cutthroat lifestyles, and the classic good vs. evil drama. I literally could NOT put this book down! One of my favorite books of all time!
Recommended by Rebecca
FDR and The New Deal For Beginners (Paperback)
Description
A profusely illustrated, popularly-written volume with original comic art, FDR and The New Deal For Beginners will shed new light upon a story now regaining visibility thanks to the recent economic crisis and prominent reformer, President Obama, in the White House.
The history of the precedent-making FDR administration through the bitter economic depression, with expansive programs empowering artists and working people, comes alive as the grandest social experiment in the history of American democracy. For the first time, the lives of the president, the first lady and the ordinary people of the time will be seen through an inventive comic narrative accompanying historic illustrations and a sympathetic but not uncritical text.
About the Author
Paul Buhle recently retired as a Senior Lecturer at Brown University and winner of a 2010 Eisner Award, has written or edited forty-two books including a series of nonfiction comic art volumes in collaboration with Harvey Pekar (The Beats and Students For A Democratic Society); adaptations of works by Howard Zinn (A People's History of American Empire) and Studs Terkel (Studs Terkel’s Working); and an authorized biography on Mad Magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman (The Art of Harvey Kurtzman). He has also written on a wide range of subjects in The Nation, Village Voice, Chronicle of Higher Education and the Guardian (UK). He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Sabrina Jones wrote and illustrated Isadora Duncan, A Graphic Biography. She is a longtime editor and contributor to the political comic book World War 3 Illustrated. She has created nonfiction comics for Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World; Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation; and Mixed Signals, a counter-recruitment tool in comic book form. She lives in Brooklyn and paints scenery for Saturday Night Live.
Praise for FDR and The New Deal For Beginners…
"The incredibly farsighted and productive presidential career of Roosevelt is handled in smart, dramatic fashion in this long-overdue addition to Steerforth's impressive "For Beginners" line of introductions to concepts, thinkers, and historical events. Buhle (The Beats) gives a clean overview of FDR's early years before heading into the meat of his story about America's most populist president. Dividing Buhler's text chapter are graphic renditions of many of the events by Jones (The Real Cost of Prisons), whose dramatic, woodcut-inspired art recalls political broadsides of the early 20th century. While avoiding lecturing, Buhle and Jones proudly speak from the left of the spectrum, a tricky balancing act. An introductory note states that the writer and artist were moved to create this book by the 2008 election of President Obama, which "created a popular, democratic and egalitarian excitement that, even now, after a considerable letdown, has hardly faded in memory." Buhle and Jones do such a good job of illustrating FDR's staggering legacy, however, that shutting the book and returning to 2010 comes as a considerable letdown."
- Publishers Weekly
"FDR and The New Deal For Beginners is an important experiment in comics as history, also a study of the grand reform era that readers need for today's and tomorrow's hopes. Get this book!"
-Robert W. McChesney, co-author, The Death and Life of American Journalism
"This is a terrific narrative that will teach new generations about the hardships Americans faced during one of the most trying eras in their history and the social movements and president who struggled to help them. The team of Buhle, Pekar, and Jones illustrate the benefits of having a president who, whatever his limits, truly cared about the welfare of working people. In elegant prose and dramatic pictures, they do more than make the past come alive; they make sense of it."
-Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero:The Life of William Jennings Bryan and professor of history, Georgetown University