A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
Recommended by Jonathan Greenblatt
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Comics, History, and Fiction.
Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon, succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Comics, History, and Fiction.
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Jonathan Greenblatt
“This #BannedBooksWeek, let's not forget the attacks on the Holocaust graphic novel #Maus. This book has a lasting legacy and teaches many young people about the #Holocaust. I'm glad to see Art Spiegelman continues to be recognized for his important work.”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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