Hillary Clinton to keep, and apologized for, calling half of Donald Trump supporters “a basket of deplorables.” Setting aside the lousy optics of criticizing a quarter of the voters, what’s up with that weird phrase? What American would ever use it?
Books By Ted Rall:
- Francis: The People's Pope
- 2 years agoFrancis: The People’s PopeMarch 12, 2018 Ted RallPublication Date: March 13, 2018Order at Amazon!He thought his church career was drawing to a close. Then he was asked to take over a Catholic Church in crisis.Religiosity was in decline in the West. And the Catholic Church was in bigger trouble than any other institution you could think of. Losing parishioners, shrinking in power and prestige and discredited by corruption and sex…Read More
- Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America
- 2 years agoMeet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America
Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America
December 12, 2017 Ted RallPublication Date: December 12, 2017Order at Indiebound! Order at Amazon! Order at Barnes and Noble.Legendary infiltration journalist Harmon Leon is at it again, this time teaming up with ferocious political cartoonist Ted Rall answer the question most of America has been asking: "What the hell happened in 2016?" In their new book, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America, Leo…Read More - Trump: A Graphic Biography
- 4 years agoTrump: A Graphic BiographyMay 10, 2016 Ted RallPublication Date: July 26, 2016Order at Amazon!Everyone in America thought they knew Donald Trump: the real estate magnate, reality TV star and bigger than life personality lived his life in the tabloids. Little did they know - though he hinted at it repeatedly - that he planned to take American politics by storm. This graphic biography explores the little-known episodes that helped form…Read More
- Bernie
- 4 years agoBernieJanuary 19, 2016 Ted RallPublication Date: January 19, 2016Order at Amazon!As a kid growing up in Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders was surrounded by grinding poverty that turned families against each other as they scrimped and saved to pay their bills.Bernie saw politics as his chance to give a decent life to everyone, not just those born to wealth or the lucky few who hit it big. But the Democratic Party and the co…Read More
- Snowden
- 5 years agoSnowdenMay 5, 2015 Ted RallPublication Date: August 25, 2015Order at Amazon!As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall's all-comic, full-color biography delves into Snowden's early l…Read More
- After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan
- 6 years agoAfter We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan
After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan
October 12, 2013 Ted RallAn independent account—in words and pictures—of America’s longest war from the beginning of the end to the end of the beginning.I traveled deep into Afghanistan—without embedding myself with U.S. soldiers, without insulating myself with flak jackets or armored SUVs—where no one else would (except, of course, Afghans).I made two trips, the first in the wake of 9/11, the next ten years later…Read More - The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
- 8 years agoThe Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
June 5, 2012 Ted RallHow did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, I was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tone deaf. In The Book of Obama I revisit the rapid rise and dizzying fall of…Read More - The Anti-American Manifesto
- 9 years agoThe Anti-American ManifestoSeptember 28, 2010 Ted RallA revolutionary 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, I see an opportunity. As millions of people lose their jobs and their homes as the economy collapses, they and millions more are opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radica…Read More
- The Year of Loving Dangerously
- 10 years agoThe Year of Loving Dangerously
The Year of Loving Dangerously
October 15, 2009 Ted RallThis autobiographical graphic novel is a collaboration between me (my story, my writing) and Bluesman cartoonist Pablo G. Callejo. Travel with me to 1984, the year I lost everything. The place is New York City. In the space of a few months, I got expelled from Columbia University, fired from my job, arrested for drugs that weren't even mine, dumped by the girl I thought was The One, and evicted. I…Read More - America Gone Wild: Cartoons by Ted Rall
- 13 years agoAmerica Gone Wild: Cartoons by Ted Rall
America Gone Wild: Cartoons by Ted Rall
October 1, 2006 Ted RallMy fourth cartoon collection collects the work that made me America's most controversial cartoonist. Here are the classic "dirty dozen" cartoons that shocked and awed newspaper readers after 9/11: "Terror Widows" and its sequels, "FDNY 2011," the Pat Tillman series. There is also a lengthy introduction and commentary, which includes behind-the-scenes looks at the hate mail and death threats that p…Read More - Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
- 13 years agoSilk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
August 1, 2006 Ted RallThis is the book I wanted to write instead of To Afghanistan and Back — everything you ever wanted to know about Central Asia, without having had to attend grad school — but didn't have time. Five years later, I was able to release my Central Asia brain dump, a book anyone can read cold and come away understanding the importance of the region and why it's so interesting. Comprising travelogue, po…Read More - Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists
- 14 years agoAttitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists
Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists
June 1, 2006 Ted RallThe final volume in the "Attitude" trilogy of alternative cartoonists is dedicated to the first wave of webcartoonists (cartoonists whose work is exclusively distributed online). Includes interviews, cartoons and personal ephemera about some of the most exciting artists to lay pen to paper — or stylus to Wacom. Here you'll find political cartoonists, humorists and dazzling graphic experiments, and…Read More - Generalissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years
- 16 years agoGeneralissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years
Generalissimo El Busho: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years
June 1, 2004 Ted Rall"Generalissimo El Busho" is my chronicle, in essays and cartoons of the most polarizing presidency in modern American history, a tragicomic week-by-week dissection of the Bush Administration's follies and crimes.I've traveled to Third World trouble spots,so I recognize a dictator when he see one. Having seized power extraconstitutionally, Bush and his cabal of corrupt businessmen made it obvi…Read More - Wake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right
- 16 years agoWake Up, You’re Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right
Wake Up, You’re Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right
May 14, 2004 Ted RallMy first all-prose book marks the beginning of the end of my belief that the Democratic Party was redeemable. Although I have come to believe that moving beyond the duopoly is necessary, liberals and progressives who have not followed me down the radical path will find much to like here.Declaring that there hasn't been a "real" Democrat in the White House since Lyndon Johnson, I decried the hi…Read More - Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists
- 16 years agoAttitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists
Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists
February 1, 2004 Ted RallThe second installment in the "Attitude" trilogy of interviews, cartoons and photos of America's top alternative cartoonists emphasizes cartoonists who deploy novel approaches to humor and the comics medium. Politics are still important, but take a back seat to social commentary in this collection.Includes the work of well-known artists like Aaron McGruder, who draws the daily comic strip "Boo…Read More - Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan
- 17 years agoGas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan
Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan
December 11, 2002 Ted RallThe result of painstaking research and analysis, "Gas War" is the definitive behind-the scenes story of the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP) project. Conceived during the 1990s under Bill Clinton, the idea was for the United States to control the vast, newly-tapped Caspian Sea oil and gas reserves — which by some measures exceed those of Saudi Arabia — by building an oil and gas pipeline from Turk…Read More - Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists
- 18 years agoAttitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists
Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists
June 1, 2002 Ted Rall"The New Subversive Political Cartoonists" is the first volume in my '"Attitude" trilogy: the definitive record of the political cartooning scene that exploded in alternative weekly newspapers during the 1980s and 1990s. It features interviews of, cartoons by and photos and ephemera about 21 ground-breaking alternative political cartoonists who revolutionized the form. The Iowa City Gazette called…Read More - To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
- 18 years agoTo Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
April 1, 2002 Ted RallThe first book about the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan is also my first work of comics journalism, a mixed-media "instant book" comprising a 50-page "graphic novella," photos and essays.When bombs began falling on the Taliban in the fall of 2001, I traveled to northern Afghanistan, where I spent three weeks covering the U.S. bombing campaign for The Village Voice and KFI, a Los Angeles radio st…Read More - Search and Destroy: Cartoons by Ted Rall
- 19 years agoSearch and Destroy: Cartoons by Ted Rall
Search and Destroy: Cartoons by Ted Rall
May 15, 2001 Ted RallA collection of 150 of my political cartoons published between 1995 and 2000. These pieces tackle the disappointments of the Clinton years, popular music, the dot-com boom to screwed-up relationships. I added commentary below most of the cartoons to place them into historical context.Search and Destroy includes cartoons from my transition from obscure alternative publications to big national m…Read More - 2024: A Graphic Novel
- 19 years ago2024: A Graphic NovelMay 1, 2001 Ted RallOne of my personal favorites, but also my worst-selling book, this graphic novel is a homage to/parody of/updating of George Orwell's novel of totalitarian oppression 1984. I faithfully attempted to follow the structure of Orwell's classic with a new take on twisted take on dystopia. The threat to our freedom isn't some totalitarian tyrant — it's our own, lazy, easily-distracted selves, wallowing…Read More
