Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Presents a scathing graphic report on the crisis facing the nation's poor and those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement.
Named A Best Book Of The Year By Amazon.Com And The Washington Post"Sacco's sections are uniformly brilliant. The tone is controlled, the writing smart, the narration neutral.... This is an important book." --- New York Times Book ReviewThree 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."Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is as moving a portrait of poverty and as compelling a call to action as Michael Harrington's The Other America, published in 1962." --Boston Globe"The journalist Chris Hedges is a unique force today, because of his fierce independence and candor." --Bill Moyers"(A] unique hybrid of investigative journalism, graphic novel, and polemic." --Denver Post "(A] growling indictment of corporate America. "--Financial Times"(Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt] is, without question, the most profoundly disquieting (and downright shocking) portrait of modern America in recent years, and one that is essential reading for anyone wanting to comprehend the quotidian struggle of what sociologists called 'the underclass.'" --The Times (UK)"The book is a primer for every American who is overwhelmed by the uncertainty of the stock market, who wonders where America's muscle went, and how much heavy lifting our kids will face." --Seattle Times
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington PostThree 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.