Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

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Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post

Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize–winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to try the sacrifice zones, those areas in The united states which were offered up for exploitation within 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 flora and fauna are used and then discarded to maximize profit. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account in their travels.

Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: From the dusty plains of North Dakota to the coal-veined hills of West Virginia to the desolate and ravaged streets of Camden N.J., Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist/journalist Joe Sacco introduce us to the nation’s “sacrifice zones”–those regions where, within the authors’ view, corporate greed has run wild, and the locals have suffered. A unique mashup of investigative journalism, man-on-the-street reportage, graphic novel, and anti-corporate manifesto, the result is a riveting and incessantly chilling account of The united states’s forgotten zones. The balance between Hedges’ narrative nonfiction storytelling and Sacco’s intimate and very human sketches is surprisingly effective. And the stark depictions (both written and visual) of abandoned coal mines and empty downtowns and crumbling houses are heartbreaking, as are the stories of people struggling to live on. It is a special and vital book. —Neal Thompson


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