Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Hedges, Chris; Joe Sacco [Comics]

ISBN 10: 1568586434 / ISBN 13: 9781568586434

Published by Nation Books, 2012

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SIGNED and inscribed by Joe Sacco on the title page with a self-portrait drawing. 320pp. Gray paper over boards backed in burgundy. FINE in FINE jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
• Publisher: Nation Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568586434
• ISBN 13: 9781568586434
• Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Illustrator: Sacco, Joe
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: FINE
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

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. 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.
The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed in the giddy race for land and empire. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted and 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 revolts against a corporate state that has handed to the young an economic, political, cultural and environmental catastrophe.

About the Author

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. He spent nearly two decades as a correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, with fifteen years at the New York Times. He is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Empire of Illusion; Death of the Liberal Class; War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning; and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-wrote with Joe Sacco. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Joe Sacco, one of the world's greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among other books, the American Book Award winning Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza, which received the Ridenhour Book Prize, and Safe Area: Gorazde, which won the Eisner Award and was named a New York Times Notable Book and Time magazine's best comic book of 2000. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper's, and the Guardian. He lives in Portland, Oregon.