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The Illustrated Guide to American Fascism is a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of fascism in the United States leading up to and following the rise of Donald Trump, as well as a stark warning for the future. This fierce, smart interweaving of punch-packing illustration and punctilious text lays bare the authoritarianism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny fueling Donald Trump's political rise, the fervor of MAGA extremism, and the alarming political landscape we are travelling through, notably the upcoming 2024 presidential election campaign. Designed especially to inform and activate younger readers, it pays particular attention to the attempted stealing of the 2020 election, including the harrowing Capitol insurrection on January 6th 2021, and Trump's efforts to evade its legal consequences. Beyond the crimes of Trump, Coe and Eisenman explore the threads of fascism in U.S. history and in today's foreign policy under President Biden, including the proxy war against Russia, support for genocide in Gaza, and the brutal treatment of asylum seekers along the U.S./Mexican border. Sue Coe's art in these pages is, by turns and often all at once, 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 Honor Daumier, the expressionism of Kthe Kollwitz, and the Dadaism of John Heartfield.

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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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