Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History

    (Hill and Wang, 2008)
™ and © 2008 Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle

From the Publisher:

By the late 1960s, America seemed to be teetering on the edge of a vast transformation. Helping push it over the edge was a brigade of young radicals, the Students for a Democratic Society, who were fighting the establishment for peace abroad and equality at home. In Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, famed graphic novelist Harvey Pekar, gifted artist Gary Dumm, renowned historian Paul Buhle, and a marvelous cast of they-were-there contributors illustrate their struggle, bringing to life the tumultuous decade that first defined and then was defined by the men and women who gathered under the SDS banner.

With brilliant art and memorable dialogue, this collection follows the organization’s rocketing rise and fall, from the famous Port Huron Statement to the last SDS convention in 1969, which ultimately signalled the group’s dissolution. The individual stories from those on the front lines go beyond the general history, showing the revolution as it was: deeply national as well as deeply personal. Students for a Democratic Society captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to believe that even one person’s actions could help transform the world.
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