Days of destruction, days of revolt / Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.
2012
HC110.P6 H43 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Days of destruction, days of revolt / Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.
Author
Hedges, Chris.
ISBN
9781568586434
1568586434
1568586434
Imprint
New York : Nation Books, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Call Number
HC110.P6 H43 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.5/60973
Summary
"In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco bring us a searing on-the-ground report on the crisis gripping underclass America and crime-ridden poverty enclaves--in prisons, urban slums, and rural communities--metastasizing around the nation"-- Provided by publisher.
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, areas 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 earnings. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed for land and empire. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the Industrial Revolution, but now lie 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 is revolting against a corporate state that has handed the young an economic, political, cultural, and environmental catastrophe.--From publisher 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, areas 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 earnings. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed for land and empire. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the Industrial Revolution, but now lie 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 is revolting against a corporate state that has handed the young an economic, political, cultural, and environmental catastrophe.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and index.
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Sacco, Joe.
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Table of Contents
Days of theft : Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Days of siege : Camden, New Jersey
Days of devastation : Welch, West Virginia
Days of slavery : Immokalee, Florida
Days of revolt : Liberty Square, New York City.
Days of siege : Camden, New Jersey
Days of devastation : Welch, West Virginia
Days of slavery : Immokalee, Florida
Days of revolt : Liberty Square, New York City.