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About Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt
Product Description Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. They wanted to show in words and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed in the giddy race for land and empire. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted and in decay. It follows the steady downward spiral of American labor into the nation's produce fields and ends in Zuccotti Park where a new generation revolts against a corporate state that has handed to the young an economic, political, cultural and environmental catastrophe. Review Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a journey through contemporary American misery and what can be done to change the course, interpreted through the eyes of two of today's most relevant literary journalists . The graphics illustrate what words alone cannot, capturing a past as it's told, where there's no longer anything left to photograph.” Asbury Park Press [T]he radical disjunction between how Hedges and Sacco approach their subjects is fascinating and instructive. Hedges is at ease with the grand, sweeping Howard Zinnmoments of matchbook history . And if sweeping, historical connect-the-dots is your cup of tea, then you will find Hedges deeply moving. But if, like Sacco, you distrust all history that does not have a face, a name, and a voice behind it, you will find more to call you to action in the voices that speak from the decimated landscapes of America's deepest poverty, which we (like Dickens's telescopic philanthropists”) know even less well than we do the sufferings of peoples halfway around the world. Together, Sacco and Hedges might just have created a form that can speak across divides unbridgeable without the supplement of graphic narrative.” Public Books a bleak, fist-shaking look at the effects of global capitalism in the United States.” Joe Gross, Austin American-Statesman This is a book that should warm the hearts of political activists such as Naomi Klein or the nonagenerian Pete Seeger. And cause apoplexy among the Tea Party and its fellow travellers . Sure, it's a polemic, but it's a polemic with a human face.” Globe and Mail (Canada) Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a harrowing account of the exploited American underclass . It is their stories that shape Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt to be a mesmeric indictment of an America that has failed its populace . From the title alone it is evident that neither Hedges nor Sacco remain objective or shy away from the palpable condemnation of capitalism and the American government. Regardless, they develop an accurate account of the despondency that plagues and divides American culture. This is an imperative read in an era where widespread economic depression and grief reign supreme . Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is powerful and remarkable, arguably one of the best publications of the year.” PopMatters.com This is an important book.” Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) It is a fascinating journey This book hit me in the gut. It will move you to engage in battle.” Ed Garvey This searing indictment of our unsustainable society is unsettling. To keep our chance for dignity, we must do our part to champion the organizers and whistleblowers, committee members and protesters. Amen. Pass the word.” Brooklyn Rail "[H]arrowing descriptions . Hedges tells the story, not only of the people but of the town, and despite the diff
