Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History

Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
by Harvey Pekar

Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
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Author: Harvey Pekar
Editor: Paul Buhle
Illustrator: Gary Dumm
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-27
ISBN: 0809089394
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Hill and Wang

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Book Review: Bad History bad drawings
Summary: 1 Stars

I was disappointed with this book. As a history of SDS it is episodic and disjoint. There is no attempt to give the viewpoints continuity. Some of the voices were cynical some were just egocentric, none were very informative. Did HSP really disolve into drug abusing powerlessness? What did it matter anyway?
As a separate issue the drawings are boring. The protestors break thru security lines to the lawn of the Pentagon. Without the text, it looks like a dull dull dull picnic.With the text it looks like there wasn't much of a protest going on. That is typical of the illustrations. The text says that women and men were taking equal part in the housekeeping at one 'project house'. Graphic shows women cooking, men talking. Kent State is condensed into two pages at the end. Throughout the book words in the text are in bold face type; the words in boldface seem to be chosen randomly.

Graphic Format can be used to bring an added dimension to an historical account. This book is an example trying to exploit the current interest in graphic format with a second rate text and ill planned pictures.

Summary of Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History

By the late 1960s, America felt like it was teetering on the edge of a vast transformation. Helping push it over that edge was a brigade of young radicals, the Students for a Democratic Society, who were fighting the establishment for peace abroad and equality at home. In Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, the famed graphic novelist Harvey Pekar, the gifted artist Gary Dumm, the renowned historian Paul Buhle, and a marvelous cast of they-were-there contributors illustrate their struggle, bringing to life the tumultuous decade that first defined and then was defined by the men and women who gathered under the SDS banner.

Students for a Democratic Society
captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to believe that even one person?s actions can help transform the world.

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