The Anti-American Manifesto
Political Manifesto, 2010
Seven Stories Press Trade Paperback, 5″x7″, 288 pp., $15.95
In arguably the most radical book published in decades, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he was always meant to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radically different form of government and economic infrastructure.
But there are dangers. As in Russia in 1991, criminals and right-wing extremists are best prepared to fill the power vacuum from a collapsing United States. The best way to stop them, Rall argues, is not collapse—but revolution. Not by other people, but by us. Not in the future, but now. While it’s still possible.
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“Rall’s work doesn’t just push the envelope; he addresses it and delivers it to your front door.”
—Express Night Out, Washington DC
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Wake Up, You’re Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right
Political Manifesto (All prose, no cartoons), 2004
Soft Skull Press Paperback, 6″x9″, 336 pp., $15.95
Declaring that there hasn’t been a “real” Democrat in the White House since Lyndon Johnson, Ted Rall decries the hijacking of the government by right-wingers and the seeming powerlessness of the left to stop them. Wake Up, America! You’re Liberal! features his trademark no-holds-barred invective. Rall, seeing the left in disarray, tells liberal Americans how to organize a vibrant, relevant alternative to rightist rule and make life better for vast numbers of people in the process. In fact, he says, in order to enjoy the mainstream majority status they deserve, liberals must strive to create a viable American left centered around an effective Democratic party.
Why is the American left in disarray and can anything be done about it? That question has haunted progressives and others who care about democracy for several decades. With the hard-right faction of the Republican Party in control of Congress, the White House and Supreme Court, the revitalization of the left in general and the Democratic Party in general is more pressing than ever.
WAKE UP, YOU’RE LIBERAL is the result of several years of research. I examined hundreds of polls of voter attitudes, talked to numerous political experts and ordinary Americans and studied media coverage of the two major parties to come up with a theoretical new political party–one that would synthesize the liberal, conservative and libertarian impulses that drive the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens, regardless of their party affiliation.
What I found was startling. On most issues, Americans–even Republicans–tend to favor values that could be best described as liberal. They fail to support candidates that agree with them on these issues, however, when they perceive hypocrisy or inconsistency in those men and women.
I expect that readers on the left and right will be equally surprised by much of what I have to say here, but I’m not a polemicist. This book is my political magnum opus, my first attempt to present my vision for the country and its people in the hope of restoring a vibrant dialogue between people who differ on everything but what matters most: doing what’s best for America.
Oh, and for those who care about such things: this book is all prose, no cartoons.
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Generalissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years
Essays and Cartoons, 2004
NBM Hardback, 6″x9″, $19.95
NBM Paperback, 6″x9″, $13.95
Ted Rall is best known for saying today what will become conventional wisdomtomorrow. His GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO is the ultimate chronicle of the mostpolarizing presidency in modern American history, a brilliantly tragicomicweek-by-week dissection of the Bush Administration’s follies and crimes as seen byAmerica’s most courageous editorial cartoonist and political writer.
Ted Rall, who has traveled and reported from the world’s hottest troublespots, recognizes a dictator when he sees one. And he doesn’t scare easily. Havingseized power extraconstitutionally, Bush and his cabal of corrupt businessmenmade it obvious that they intended to rule with ruthless zeal. Unlike most ofhis fellow journalists, however, Rall refused to be cowed–even in the wakeof 9/11. Others came out of the woodwork during 2003, but Ted Rall’s ferociousdenunciations of our ersatz president and his assaults on our preciousfreedoms stood virtually alone during the flag-waving weeks and months following theattacks on New York and Washington. And unlike every other commentator, Rallused two different forms of media–cartoons and essays–to speak brutallyhonest truth to power even as he fended off death threats.
Brave, uncompromising and fiercely devoted to traditional American values offreedom and integrity, Ted Rall’s GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO collects the best ofhis hilarious cartoons and brutally honest essays during the Bush years.
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Revenge of the Latchkey Kids: An Illustrated Guide to Surviving the ’90s and Beyond
Generation X Manifesto in Essays and Cartoons, 1998
Workman Hardback, 7″x10″, 224 pp., $18.95
Workman Paperback, 7″x10″, 224 pp., $10.95
REVENGE OF THE LATCHKEY KIDS documents Generation X as it enters marriage, parenthood and, God forbid, responsibility. Previously titled KILL YOUR PARENTS BEFORE THEY KILL YOU (before bookstores made clear they wouldn’t carry it), REVENGE OF THE LATCHKEY KIDS is an illustrated 224-page manifesto for surviving the 90′s and beyond, with 24 chapters of edgy insight, personal histories, advice and cartoons. It is, in the words of Jules Feiffer (who wrote the introduction), “a spicy stew of high-handed judgments, part drawing, part essay, part memoir-confession, part tantrum. The text is the thing. Funny, fractious here and there, nasty now and then, brilliant.” Among topics on Ted’s mind are “College is for Suckers,” “Gen Xploitation,” “Making the Most of Your Parents’ Divorce,” “Relationship Tips for the Sexless,” and in a rallying cry only a true subversive could love, “Bring On The Stock Market Crash.” Salon.com reviewed this book and called Ted “one of the best political cartoonists in America.” Also includes Ted’s seminal essays on work and other subjects for Dave Eggers’ MIGHT magazine.
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