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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.

Paul Buhle, recently retired as a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, 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, The 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.


"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

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• The New Deal
• Paul Buhle
• Sabrina Jones
• Harvey Pekar
• For Beginners

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I've got to get this book,

I really love Sabrina Jones's art.