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Through a mixture of words and drawings, two award-winning journalists tell the stories of Americans surviving in the parts of the country most ravaged by capitalism, and the ways they manage to find hope “As moving a portrait of poverty and as compelling a call to action as Michael Harrington’s The Other America .” — The Boston Globe A New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year In this blend of rigorous journalism and graphic novel, Pulitzer Prize–winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to explore “sacrifice zones,” those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. Beginning in the Great Plains, where Native American reservations bear the legacy of ethnic cleansing, Hedges and Sacco travel to some of the most neglected regions in the United States. They speak to families in Appalachia whose lives are subject to the whims of coal companies; they meet agricultural laborers who endure brutal working conditions and live below the poverty line. In each region, they seek pockets of optimism and resistance, from union organizers to neighbors who shelter each other, and ultimately end up in Zuccotti Park during the first days of the Occupy movement. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of Sacco’s and Hedges’s travels.

Review: A Brilliant Snapshot Of A Nation In Despair - There is so much to like about Chris Hedges's and Joe Sacco's, Days of Destruction Days of Revolt (Nation Books, New York, 2012), I hardly know where to begin. What's not to like when a book that speaks the unvarnished truth? Corporations flourish, ordinary people languish; the super rich get richer, ordinary people suffer; the American Dream is an illusion, with "winners" tap-dancing uneasily over the freshly dug graves of those for who have long since lost hope. Do you want change? Behold the national security state, the smartly clad and well-armed local police departments, the smug prosecutors, Wall Street and the politicos, dancing hand-in-hand round and round in Washington while the rest of us turn away in disgust. Hedges tells it like it is. Sacco illustrates. This work is part text and part graphic presentation. I was at first put off by the graphic component. Times are grim. This is no time for comic books, I found myself thinking. But as I studied the graphic portraits of despair in such places as the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the desolate streets of Camden, New Jersey, the desiccated mountains of West Virginia, or the plantation-like cruelty supporting the tomato harvesting agribusiness in Immokalee, Florida, I was moved by the grimness on the look of the characters' faces. These line drawings convey what words have difficulty expressing. Call it dignified hopelessness: There are Americans who read their death warrants written on corporate ledgers of firms too big to fail who nonetheless continue to speak the truth. I devoured this book in an afternoon, feeling as though I had found friends: My ruminations about a country adrift, corporate fat-cats hand-in-hand with their cronies in government turning the nation into a fascist fat farm, these thoughts don't mark me as a solitary grievant. There are thousands, if not millions, of Americans thinking and feeling the same thing. Hedges gives voice to a grumbling evidence to any who will listen. Hedges and Sacco traveled to some of the most distressed regions of the country to see how the dispossessed live. Their reports are grim: Alcoholism and despair on the Pine Ridge reservation; drug use and rage in the ghetto; fear and exhaustion in immigrant communities; wary resignation in coal country. But alongside all this misery the bitch goddess profit and her handmaidens in the form of corporate thuggery and political diffidence among the elite. It's enough to make you want to ... Well, what, exactly? The book ends with a chapter on the Occupy Movement that flourished in an instant, and then vanished almost as quickly as it came. Hedges interviews Occupiers, and you can hear something like flinty hope in their voices. They may not have had a vision of how to reconstruct a better world. It was enough to assert that the world as it is fails to deliver what is both needed and promised. There was, and there remains, a value in refusal. Where has that struggle gone? Hedges writes too briefly about a trial in Utah of an activist named Tim DeChristopher, who disrupted a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008 - he sought to impede the Bush administration's selling of federal land to gas and oil interests. DeChristopher hoped to rely on jury nullification to defend himself. He was devastated when the judge told jurors they could do no such thing. The judge "said it was not their job to decide [what]... is right or wrong, but to listen to what he said the law was and follow that even if they thought it was morally unjust. They were not allowed to use their conscience." The fact that he was surprised by the fact that the law can be applied devoid of conscience was oddly refreshing. Perhaps people can be taught to reclaim their sovereignty. When DeChristopher was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison, he told the judge: "I am here today because I have chosen to protect the people locked out of the system over the profits of the corporations running the system. I say this not because I want your mercy, but because I want you to join me." Fat chance the judge will do that; it is far easier to decide cases according to law, to put blinders on about who writes the law to serve what interest -- a sleeping people are easily managed. Jury nullification remains, in my view, a powerful means of citizens' taking direct action to challenge the law, a topic I wrote about at length in Juries and Justice. (Sutton Hart, 2013). I've not seen enough written on the topic and its potential to radicalize and mobilize ordinary people in literature about what can be done to reclaim the promise of the American dream. The final chapter on the Occupy movement rings with hope and fiery prose. "There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt or you stand on the wrong side of history." I like the sentiment, but the call to "create monastic enclaves where we can retain and nurture the values being rapidly destroyed by the wider corporate culture and build the mechanisms of self-sufficiency that will allow us to survive," rings a little defeatist and hollow - even prosaic, even if, as it seems, it is the only realistic course. The American century has ended, and with it visions of common dreams. And that is, I suppose, the flaw in this otherwise wonderful book. The world is unhinged. Corporations and government are joined at the hip in a new form of something like fascism. The new national security or surveillance state promises security at the expense of a numbing uniformity. If ever there were a time that the anarchists in our history looked like prophets, it is now. I wonder why Hedges couldn't bring himself more directly say so? When even radicals pull punches the future seems dark indeed.
Review: Volcano Peace Studies member - I was asked to "vet" this book for a professor of sociology & political science. The illustrated book examines 4 communities in the USA that have been ravaged & changed forever by corporate greed (Pine Ridge Indian reservation which represents the role of resource greed in this county's earliest growth; Camden NJ, pillaged by crooked politicians and abandoned after the steel industry collapsed; a West Virginia town ruined by mountain topping coal extraction; and a Florida town that is central to the migrant picking fruit and vegetable trade). Initially I thought, "This is just too grim, the information is so relentlessly depressing." While you read the heartbreaking stories of people who live in these communities it just feels that "the fix is in," corporate power is just too entrenched to ever be regulated to be more humane and fair. But after the profiles Hedges writes an extremely eloquent summary of why it's important to care about these issues and speak out against them even in the face of what seem like impossible odds. I don't have the book with me anymore; I gave it to a nephew who teaches. But he wrote something to the effect of the importance of standing for the side of good, standing up against greed and human exploitation. He cited examples of many corrupt periods and places that reached the tipping point and changed. He said many of the people who protested in places over the years were marginalized and lonely and never saw the results of their actions. However, their actions resonated with younger people and planted the seeds of change. The illustrations start w. sketches of the community itself in each section, then with a portrait of one person they speak to, and finally, one of their interviews turns into an 8- or ten-page comic strip of someone's story of their life in that community. All of these have the effect of humanizing the tough information being chronicled. They literally put a face on corporate excess and exploitation. So while it was very tough information, it was translated very succinctly into how corporate excesses affect families and communities. I felt it was an important read, and recommended it highly as a college textbook. I will also give it as gifts to many young people I know who care about the state of the world and are civicly engaged.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #297,556 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #189 in Biographies & History Graphic Novels #401 in Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels #481 in Political Conservatism & Liberalism |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 611 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Brilliant Snapshot Of A Nation In Despair
*by N***S on June 16, 2013*

There is so much to like about Chris Hedges's and Joe Sacco's, Days of Destruction Days of Revolt (Nation Books, New York, 2012), I hardly know where to begin. What's not to like when a book that speaks the unvarnished truth? Corporations flourish, ordinary people languish; the super rich get richer, ordinary people suffer; the American Dream is an illusion, with "winners" tap-dancing uneasily over the freshly dug graves of those for who have long since lost hope. Do you want change? Behold the national security state, the smartly clad and well-armed local police departments, the smug prosecutors, Wall Street and the politicos, dancing hand-in-hand round and round in Washington while the rest of us turn away in disgust. Hedges tells it like it is. Sacco illustrates. This work is part text and part graphic presentation. I was at first put off by the graphic component. Times are grim. This is no time for comic books, I found myself thinking. But as I studied the graphic portraits of despair in such places as the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the desolate streets of Camden, New Jersey, the desiccated mountains of West Virginia, or the plantation-like cruelty supporting the tomato harvesting agribusiness in Immokalee, Florida, I was moved by the grimness on the look of the characters' faces. These line drawings convey what words have difficulty expressing. Call it dignified hopelessness: There are Americans who read their death warrants written on corporate ledgers of firms too big to fail who nonetheless continue to speak the truth. I devoured this book in an afternoon, feeling as though I had found friends: My ruminations about a country adrift, corporate fat-cats hand-in-hand with their cronies in government turning the nation into a fascist fat farm, these thoughts don't mark me as a solitary grievant. There are thousands, if not millions, of Americans thinking and feeling the same thing. Hedges gives voice to a grumbling evidence to any who will listen. Hedges and Sacco traveled to some of the most distressed regions of the country to see how the dispossessed live. Their reports are grim: Alcoholism and despair on the Pine Ridge reservation; drug use and rage in the ghetto; fear and exhaustion in immigrant communities; wary resignation in coal country. But alongside all this misery the bitch goddess profit and her handmaidens in the form of corporate thuggery and political diffidence among the elite. It's enough to make you want to ... Well, what, exactly? The book ends with a chapter on the Occupy Movement that flourished in an instant, and then vanished almost as quickly as it came. Hedges interviews Occupiers, and you can hear something like flinty hope in their voices. They may not have had a vision of how to reconstruct a better world. It was enough to assert that the world as it is fails to deliver what is both needed and promised. There was, and there remains, a value in refusal. Where has that struggle gone? Hedges writes too briefly about a trial in Utah of an activist named Tim DeChristopher, who disrupted a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008 - he sought to impede the Bush administration's selling of federal land to gas and oil interests. DeChristopher hoped to rely on jury nullification to defend himself. He was devastated when the judge told jurors they could do no such thing. The judge "said it was not their job to decide [what]... is right or wrong, but to listen to what he said the law was and follow that even if they thought it was morally unjust. They were not allowed to use their conscience." The fact that he was surprised by the fact that the law can be applied devoid of conscience was oddly refreshing. Perhaps people can be taught to reclaim their sovereignty. When DeChristopher was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison, he told the judge: "I am here today because I have chosen to protect the people locked out of the system over the profits of the corporations running the system. I say this not because I want your mercy, but because I want you to join me." Fat chance the judge will do that; it is far easier to decide cases according to law, to put blinders on about who writes the law to serve what interest -- a sleeping people are easily managed. Jury nullification remains, in my view, a powerful means of citizens' taking direct action to challenge the law, a topic I wrote about at length in Juries and Justice. (Sutton Hart, 2013). I've not seen enough written on the topic and its potential to radicalize and mobilize ordinary people in literature about what can be done to reclaim the promise of the American dream. The final chapter on the Occupy movement rings with hope and fiery prose. "There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt or you stand on the wrong side of history." I like the sentiment, but the call to "create monastic enclaves where we can retain and nurture the values being rapidly destroyed by the wider corporate culture and build the mechanisms of self-sufficiency that will allow us to survive," rings a little defeatist and hollow - even prosaic, even if, as it seems, it is the only realistic course. The American century has ended, and with it visions of common dreams. And that is, I suppose, the flaw in this otherwise wonderful book. The world is unhinged. Corporations and government are joined at the hip in a new form of something like fascism. The new national security or surveillance state promises security at the expense of a numbing uniformity. If ever there were a time that the anarchists in our history looked like prophets, it is now. I wonder why Hedges couldn't bring himself more directly say so? When even radicals pull punches the future seems dark indeed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Volcano Peace Studies member
*by B***T on January 16, 2014*

I was asked to "vet" this book for a professor of sociology & political science. The illustrated book examines 4 communities in the USA that have been ravaged & changed forever by corporate greed (Pine Ridge Indian reservation which represents the role of resource greed in this county's earliest growth; Camden NJ, pillaged by crooked politicians and abandoned after the steel industry collapsed; a West Virginia town ruined by mountain topping coal extraction; and a Florida town that is central to the migrant picking fruit and vegetable trade). Initially I thought, "This is just too grim, the information is so relentlessly depressing." While you read the heartbreaking stories of people who live in these communities it just feels that "the fix is in," corporate power is just too entrenched to ever be regulated to be more humane and fair. But after the profiles Hedges writes an extremely eloquent summary of why it's important to care about these issues and speak out against them even in the face of what seem like impossible odds. I don't have the book with me anymore; I gave it to a nephew who teaches. But he wrote something to the effect of the importance of standing for the side of good, standing up against greed and human exploitation. He cited examples of many corrupt periods and places that reached the tipping point and changed. He said many of the people who protested in places over the years were marginalized and lonely and never saw the results of their actions. However, their actions resonated with younger people and planted the seeds of change. The illustrations start w. sketches of the community itself in each section, then with a portrait of one person they speak to, and finally, one of their interviews turns into an 8- or ten-page comic strip of someone's story of their life in that community. All of these have the effect of humanizing the tough information being chronicled. They literally put a face on corporate excess and exploitation. So while it was very tough information, it was translated very succinctly into how corporate excesses affect families and communities. I felt it was an important read, and recommended it highly as a college textbook. I will also give it as gifts to many young people I know who care about the state of the world and are civicly engaged.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A spectacular and moving account: read it!
*by J***Y on October 17, 2012*

This book is painful to read, and should be read by everyone. For me, it illustrated how almost everyone has now joined the ranks of the dispossessed, or is in danger of doing so sooner than they think. The scorn formerly poured on indigenous populations who succumbed to alcoholism and unemployment after the forcible removal of their lands and their livelihoods can now apparently be extended to large portions of the USA's population: people who used to have homes, careers and families and who have been rendered trash by the machinations of large corporations. They now also sit in ruined towns, comatose in front of the TV, clutching the bottle for comfort. Sometimes it might be the pill bottle rather than the booze bottle, but it's killing them just the same. And those who are brave enough to protest the ruination of their lives and those of their neighbours are likely to be attacked and in some cases killed for their efforts. We no longer need dystopian science fiction novels: we have turned our planet into one. This book is one of the many wake-up calls published in recent years by people who value the future of the planet and the species it houses (including humanity). It is one of the best. Its intimate examination of the lives of ordinary people is chilling in its thoroughness and its straightforward description of their betrayal and despair. The giant corporations are truly psychopathic if they can continue to pretend that what has happened in the Appalachian mountains, in cities like Camden, and to people like the migrant workers on fruit farms, is actually good for anything other than the shareholders' bank balances. A revolt is most definitely needed, before the world runs out of time. The lunacy of digging up mountains in order to release coal with which to further damage our already damaged ecosystems further almost defies belief - except it's actually happening. The abandonment of people to unemployment and ruin is criminal. Governments around the world should be uniting to fight off the corporate evil that is described in this book. Instead, they have been bought by those very corporations and are working assiduously to aid the destruction. Shame!

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