Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781568588247)

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.

Author: Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco
ISBN-10: 1568588240
ISBN-13: 9781568588247
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2014
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 10.00h x 6.80w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 05/04/2014 pg. 24