{"product_id":"9781681377414","title":"The Ruling Clawss","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring his career as a \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e cartoonist, and before he wrote \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDanny and the Dinosaur\u003c\/em\u003e, Syd Hoff wrote under a different name. He was A. Redfield, a cartoonist for the communist newspaper the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaily Worker\u003c\/em\u003e, and a scourge of the rich and powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScorning what he saw as the complicity and stale jokes of cartooning peers, Hoff set his sights on the ruling class and revealed them for what they were: hilariously inept, deeply selfish, and incredibly dangerous. Hoff spared nothing from his pen, lampooning police brutality, thin-skinned industrialists, racists, and the looming threat of fascism at home and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ruling Clawss\u003c\/em\u003e includes a new introduction by the historian Philip Nel, who reveals\u2028 the story behind the rise and disappearance of Hoffʼs Redfield. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ruling Clawss\u003c\/em\u003e cements Hoff as a master of the gag comic, whose work remains powerfully funny and troublingly resonant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45207799562549,"sku":"9781681377414","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/files\/ScreenShot2023-06-07at1.46.45PM.png?v=1686170813","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/9781681377414","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}