This is the first complete edition of a French graphic novel memoir that is harrowing and poignant but also touched with humor. When writer/artist David B. (then known as Pierre-Francois Beauchard) was a child, his older brother Jean-Christophe was diagnosed with epilepsy. As Jean-Christophe's desperate parents grasp at straws--visiting neurologists, psychiatrists, spiritualists, acupuncturists, gurus, and macrobiotics practitioners, all of whom claim that they can alleviate the boy's increasingly frequent and more violent seizures--the lives of the entire family are swallowed up in the quest for a cure. David responds by retreating farther and farther inside himself, creating and illustrating a vivid, disturbing fantasy world where he is a warrior defeating monsters and other supernatural creatures. The black-and-white art is both childlike and sophisticated, as is appropriate for an adult's childhood reminiscences.

In this perceptive analysis of the challenges that the Democratic Party faces in getting its message across to the American public as the 2008 election nears, Matt Bai examines several influential people--other than candidates--along the party's political spectrum, including: financier George Soros, blogger Markos Moulitsas, and DNC chair Howard Dean. With a sure grasp of both tradition and history as well as new technologies and constituencies, Bai deftly marks out the hot button issues that need to be argued out and resolved before the party can set course for the future. The debates, he says, will be contentious.

In this perceptive analysis of the challenges that the Democratic Party faces in getting its message across to the American public as the 2008 election nears, Matt Bai examines several influential people--other than candidates--along the party's political spectrum, including: financier George Soros, blogger Markos Moulitsas, and DNC chair Howard Dean. With a sure grasp of both tradition and history as well as new technologies and constituencies, Bai deftly marks out the hot button issues that need to be argued out and resolved before the party can set course for the future. The debates, he says, will be contentious.

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