a scorching look at communities burned out not by foreign bombs but by American capitalism.' - The Stranger (Seattle) 'When their narrative culminates in Zucotti Park, readers will feel just as outraged as the protesters portrayed on the page.' -Barnes and Noble Review 'Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt examines how corruption and greed have shaped the history of the United States in an unfortunate way. And though many a conservative think-tanker could try to punch holes in its arguments no one can remain unmoved or unsettled by its brilliantly documented reportage from the precipice of a society that prefers to turn a blind eye to its nightmarish underside.' - The Times (Saturday Review) 'rilliant combination of prose and graphic comics.' -Ralph Nader ' Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (Nation) 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 ' Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a gripping and thoroughly researched polemic.' -Grantland, 'ead Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt to know what is happening in this country.' -Caffeinated Muslim '. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is unapologetically combative and profoundly J'accuse.

To describe the book as Dickensian in its horror-show reports of frontline industrial decrepitude and socio-economic dysfunction is to engage in understatement. ' 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'. 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. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted and in decay. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed in the giddy race for land and empire. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels.

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.

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.

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