Eisner, Will

The plot : the secret story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion / Will Eisner ; with an introduction by Umberto Eco - New York : W.W. Norton , c2005 - 148 p. : illus. ; 26 cm. - The Will Eisner library .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This nonfiction book in graphic-novel style examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Hatched as an anti-Semitic plot by the tsar's secret police to deflect widespread criticism of the Russian government, the forgery, first published in 1905, succeeded beyond the propagandistic ambitions of its originators; the lie became an internationally accepted truth. Presenting a pageant of historical figures including Tsar Nicholas II, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, Eisner exposes the twisted history of the Protocols from nineteenth-century Russia to modern-day Klan members to Islamic fundamentalists. The Plot unravels one of the most devastating hoaxes of the twentieth century.


English

9780393060454


Antisemitism


Graphic novels

DS145.P7 / E37 2005

GN 305.8924 EIS