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Going Postal: School Shootings, Workplace Massacres, and the Untold History of America's Failed Rebellions - Softcover
American workers and children are rebelling violently all around us. Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has both plagued and baffled America for the last three decades, offering provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s—when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings—Ames crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He explores numerous fascinating and unexpected cases in detail, showing that as with slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context, thereby revealing their true meaning. Ames updates this edition with an eye toward recent events, including several new essays taking on the violent episodes at Northern Illinois and Virginia Tech universities, as well as workplace outrages like that in Alabama in March 2009. With the economy slumping and shooting rampages seemingly on the rise, Ames’s wide-scoped explanations have never been more prudent.
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About the Author:
Mark Ames was born in Silicon Valley. In 1993, he escaped the office life by moving to Moscow, Russia, where he founded the satirical, muckraking newspaper The eXile, and co-authored a book about the newspaper, which was shut down by the Kremlin in 2008. He now lives in New York and writes for The Nation.
Review:
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION
Incisive.” Publishers Weekly
It's a fairly powerful event to find a decent-sized book that does nothing but articulate a series of truths about the American Life you've hardly read about or spoken about, but just simply felt . . . [Going Postal] is such a book.” AlterNet.org
[A] breezy, barroom Foucault . . . audacious, necessary reading.” Eye Weekly
[Ames’s] conclusions are chilling . . . This is dark and serious stuff.” Philadelphia Weekly
Well argued, intense, and unique.” Giant
A fascinating slice of cultural history that also offers up that rarest of things: an original idea.” New York Press
Going Postal places office shootings in the context of a workforce that's faced massive, impersonal layoffs, and workers who find themselves just scraping by while their bosses live like kings . . . It’s a fascinating book . . . [Ames has a] clear and refreshing compassion for the people who head to work every day.” Forbes.com
[A] startling analysis, fizzing with the caustic, no-prisoners rage Ames perfected as the editor of The exile . . . Ames' fury feels fresher and more morally authentic than the usual Subaru-bumper-sticker critique of the Wal-Mart Era.” Willamette Week
Incisive.” Publishers Weekly
It's a fairly powerful event to find a decent-sized book that does nothing but articulate a series of truths about the American Life you've hardly read about or spoken about, but just simply felt . . . [Going Postal] is such a book.” AlterNet.org
[A] breezy, barroom Foucault . . . audacious, necessary reading.” Eye Weekly
[Ames’s] conclusions are chilling . . . This is dark and serious stuff.” Philadelphia Weekly
Well argued, intense, and unique.” Giant
A fascinating slice of cultural history that also offers up that rarest of things: an original idea.” New York Press
Going Postal places office shootings in the context of a workforce that's faced massive, impersonal layoffs, and workers who find themselves just scraping by while their bosses live like kings . . . It’s a fascinating book . . . [Ames has a] clear and refreshing compassion for the people who head to work every day.” Forbes.com
[A] startling analysis, fizzing with the caustic, no-prisoners rage Ames perfected as the editor of The exile . . . Ames' fury feels fresher and more morally authentic than the usual Subaru-bumper-sticker critique of the Wal-Mart Era.” Willamette Week
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- PublisherSoft Skull Press
- Publication date2025
- ISBN 10 159376264X
- ISBN 13 9781593762643
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages304
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