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Cargando... Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (2020)por Derf Backderf
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I don’t recommend going into this book without some preexisting knowledge of the events. Once you get into the rhythm, and give up on distinguishing between all the characters, the tension builds super effectively up to the shootings. ( ) A graphic novel of the 1970 protests and shootings on the Kent State campus. I knew •of• the Kent State incident but despite living in Ohio off and on for 20+ years, I'd never known the details until now, so I'm happy to have read this to get a better sense of what happened. It's a nicely structured account, although be warned that Backderf doesn't do much to hide his opinions on who was in the wrong (I agree with him, but it still reads a little more slanted than an objective account should, so if that's what you'd rather have you won't find it here). Also, I really don't like this illustration style. It's...ugly? And maybe that's partly the point, but my brain just doesn't cotton to it. Kent State is an event that I've always been vaguely aware of, but I don't remember it being given too much attention during any history class I took in school. There is so much US history to cover (not to mention all the other world history that's happened before and since) that glossing over a fairly recent event like this is almost understandable. That's unfortunate, though, because not only were the aftershocks of this event huge (changes to how law enforcement approach crowd control during protests; the cover-up, investigation, and warring opinions about the events and who was at fault), but the Kent State massacre is probably more relevant than ever before considering the protests going on in the US over the past few years. At some point in the recent past I read the Wikipedia pages for the Kent State shootings and the four victims who were killed that day. It seemed like a good, unsentimental overview at the time, but the way the events are presented here in this book go above and beyond the facts in a good way. Spending some time with each victim in the days leading up to the massacre, seeing their friendships and relationships, watching them go to work and school and to parties, and following the events, beliefs, and choices that led them to be near the Prentice Hall parking lot on May 4, 1970, was compelling. Seeing all of the political conflict, covert government dealings/misunderstandings, and flat out foolish mistakes that led to violence occurring on that day was heartbreaking. Over the course of the book all of these elements combined into a mounting sense of dread that is ultimately only a fraction of what the protesters, bystander students, their families, and the whole country that watched felt during and after Kent State. Derf Beckderf did a wonderfully effective job of laying out a lot of important information in a compassionate way. I don't know why I felt the need to write a whole long review for this book, but I'm glad to know a little more about the Kent State shootings than I did before. Unfortunately, the US is probably always going to experience political unrest of some sort. There will probably always be unhappy citizens making their opinions known via protests, some of them violent but many of them peaceful (frustrated, but peaceful). Reading this in light of the protests we've seen over the past year, for BLM and stopping AAPI hate and other important topics, hits hard, but it also made me feel a little worse: history repeats itself if you don't learn from it, and I'm not sure enough people learned from this to stop the repetition. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:From bestselling author Derf Backderf comes the untold story of the Kent State shootingsâ??timed for the 50th anniversary On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own childrenâ??a shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, 10-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a trucker strike. Using the journalism skills he employed on My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore the lives of these four young people and the events of those four days in May, when the country seemed on the brink of tearing apart. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, which will be published in time for the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissentâ??as relevant today as it was in 197 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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