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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 to American Fascismexplores 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 Honore Daumier, the expressionism of Kthe Kollwitz, and the Dadaism of John Heartfield.

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""Coe’s illustrations . . . don’t try to inform or debate: They just punch you in the face."" —The Washington Post “Prescient . . . searing social-political art.” —The New York Times ""The most clear, generous, and sincere book on fascism and anti-fascism I have read in recent years . . . delightfully willing to punch fascism in the nose."" —Andrew Tonkovich, Los Angeles Review of Books ""[A] powerful and impactful interweaving of punchy art and precise words that together lay bare the authoritarianism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that characterises much of the political landscape of the US today."" —The Morning Star ""Sue Coe’s work is a visceral reminder of the power of art as resistance, offering a searing critique of fascism and injustice with every stroke."" —CounterPunch ""[Sue Coe's] characters seem to climb into each other; they elicit a horror and disillusionment that matches the moment."" —Middle East Eye

""Coe’s illustrations . . . don’t try to inform or debate: They just punch you in the face."" —The Washington Post “Prescient . . . searing social-political art.” —The New York Times

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Sue Coeis an artist, animal rights activist, and anti-fascist. She is the author ofThe Animal's Vegan ManifestoandCruel. She has depicted the rights struggles of women, children, queers, animals, refugees, and political dissidents. She has exposed the suffering of AIDS patients, displaced persons, and domesticated animals. Her art has also exposed the horrors of factory farms, zoos, prisons, and refugee camps. Coe's prints, drawings and paintings are found in many major art museums, and her illustrations have been published inThe New York Times,The Nationand elsewhere. Stephen F. Eisenmanis Professor Emeritus of Art History at Northwestern University and the author of a dozen books includingNineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, Gauguin's Skirt, The Abu Ghraib Effect, andThe Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights. He is an art critic and columnist forCounterpunchand the co-founder of the environmental justice non-profit, Anthropocene Alliance.

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