The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
by Will Eisner

The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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Author: Will Eisner
Introduction: Umberto Eco
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-16
ISBN: 0393060454
Number of pages: 148
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Book Reviews of The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Book Review: "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." - Nietzsche
Summary: 5 Stars

A fine exposition of the lies people will believe to back up their biases and prejudices. This is not really enjoyable like other graphic novels I have read but I learned some history along the way and I like the message...so yay - 5 stars!

These wonderful lines from the Afterword by Stephen Eric Bronner sum it all up very well. Instead of "the work", read "opinions" and the following sentence is as applicable to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as to any other nonsense spewed by zealots everywhere

"The authenticiy of the work does not seem to matter. But that is because the antisemite, in the great phrase of Jean Paul Sartre, "turns himself into stone." Bigotry becomes his way of explaining the world without having to justify the explanation through evidence or logic. Antisemistism offers a convenient worldview for all the "losers" who feel themselves threatened by the forces of modernity, who fear the future, and who seek comfort in rigid religious and anti-democratic forms of authority. Admitting that these traditional forms of authority are becoming increasingly anachronistic would shatter the bigot's sense of self-worth. Better for the losers to find a "scapegoat"."

Summary of The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" (New York Times).

Will Eisner, the great American master of comics, has undertaken what he regards as his most powerful work yet. The Plot examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the actual blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Hatched as an anti-Semitic plot by the tsar's secret police to deflect widespread criticism of the government, the Protocols, first published in 1905, succeeded beyond the propagandistic ambitions of its originators; the lie became an internationally accepted truth. Presenting a pageant of historical figures including Tsar Nicholas II, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, Eisner exposes the twisted history of the Protocols from nineteenth-century Russia to modern-day Klan members to Islamic fundamentalists. The Plot unravels one of the most devastating hoaxes of the twentieth century.

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