Praise for Kent State

“[Backderf’s] expertly crafted chronicle of this defining moment in U.S. history serves as a deeply moving elegy for the victims. Readers may also draw from it sobering parallels to the deep divisions of contemporary times, again dangerously rife with media noise and misinformation muddying the waters.”
Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review

“An incendiary corrective to the myths and misconceptions surrounding these events and a memorial to the lives lost or forever altered that should be required reading for all Americans.”
Library Journal - STARRED review

"Deeply researched and gut-wrenching…”
The New Yorker

“One of the masterpieces of the medium...a work of devastating emotional impact.”
Forbes

About the Author

Derf Backderf is the bestselling and award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer, Trashed, Punk Rock and Trailer Parks, and Kent State, and is the recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, ran for nearly 25 years and appeared in more than 150 newspapers. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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