The Plot - The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Eisner, Will; Eco, Umberto (Introduction)

ISBN 10: 0393060454 / ISBN 13: 9780393060454

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, USA, 2005

About this Item

"Completing 'The Plot' in the last month of his life, Will Eisner, the great master of American comics, tackled what he regarded as his most powerful work. Deeply disturbed that the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the actual blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world, continued to be published and disseminated to millions of people around the globe, Eisner hoped that his own graphic account of this outrageous fabrication could reach a mass audience in a way that no academic work possibly could. Eisner powerfully depicts the rise of modern antisemitic thought as seen through the spread of the 'Protocols' itself." - dust jacket. "A work more disturbing than fiction from 'the father of graphic novels'." - New York Times. 148 pages. Bibliography. Index. Profusely illustrated in Eisner's inimitable style. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with trivial wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent example of this fascinating work.; Illustrations; 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Plot - The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, USA
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393060454
• ISBN 13: 9780393060454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Eisner, Will
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Conspiracy
  • Literature
  • History

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Synopsis

A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" (The New York Times). "The ultimate illustration of how absurdly comical and cancerous The Protocols has been to mankind."–Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms around the globe. Purported to be the actual blueprints by Jewish leaders to take over the world, the Protocols, first published in 1902, have become gospel truth to international millions. Presenting a pageant of historical figures from nineteenth-century Russia to today's ideologues, including Tsar Nicholas II, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, Will Eisner unravels and dispels one of the most devastating hoaxes of the twentieth century.

About the Authors

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the author of Foucault’s Pendulum, The Name of the Rose, and other international bestsellers. He lives in Milan, Italy.

Born in New York City, Will Eisner (1917–2005) was the author of the legendary comic strip The Spirit, as well as fifteen graphic novels and three influential instructional textbooks. The comic industry’s top awards, the Eisner Awards, are named in his honor.