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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Paperback – April 8, 2014

by Chris Hedges (Author), Joe Sacco (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
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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.
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“Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a journey through contemporary American misery and what can be done to change the course, interpreted through the eyes of two of today's most relevant literary journalists…. The graphics illustrate what words alone cannot, capturing a past as it's told, where there's no longer anything left to photograph.”
—Asbury Park Press

“[T]he radical disjunction between how Hedges and Sacco approach their subjects is fascinating and instructive. Hedges is at ease with the grand, sweeping Howard Zinn–moments of matchbook history…. And if sweeping, historical connect-the-dots is your cup of tea, then you will find Hedges deeply moving. But if, like Sacco, you distrust all history that does not have a face, a name, and a voice behind it, you will find more to call you to action in the voices that speak from the decimated landscapes of America's deepest poverty, which we (like Dickens's “telescopic philanthropists”) know even less well than we do the sufferings of peoples halfway around the world. Together, Sacco and Hedges might just have created a form that can speak across divides unbridgeable without the supplement of graphic narrative.”
—Public Books

“…a bleak, fist-shaking look at the effects of global capitalism in the United States.”
—Joe Gross, Austin American-Statesman

“This is a book that should warm the hearts of political activists such as Naomi Klein or the nonagenerian Pete Seeger. And cause apoplexy among the Tea Party and its fellow travellers…. Sure, it's a polemic, but it's a polemic with a human face.”
—Globe and Mail (Canada)

“Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a harrowing account of the exploited American underclass…. It is their stories that shape Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt to be a mesmeric indictment of an America that has failed its populace…. From the title alone it is evident that neither Hedges nor Sacco remain objective or shy away from the palpable condemnation of capitalism and the American government. Regardless, they develop an accurate account of the despondency that plagues and divides American culture. This is an imperative read in an era where widespread economic depression and grief reign supreme…. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is powerful and remarkable, arguably one of the best publications of the year.”
—PopMatters.com

“This is an important book.”
—Winnipeg Free Press (Canada)

“It is a fascinating journey… This book hit me in the gut. It will move you to engage in battle.”
—Ed Garvey

“This searing indictment of our unsustainable society is unsettling. To keep our chance for dignity, we must do our part to champion the organizers and whistleblowers, committee members and protesters. Amen. Pass the word.”
—Brooklyn Rail

"[H]arrowing descriptions…. Hedges tells the story, not only of the people but of the town, and despite the differences in setting, certain similarities show through: poverty, addiction, violence; but more than that, a long series of broken promises and mounting despair. Sacco illustrates these chapters with his distinctive, careful line drawings…. [A]n excellent piece of journalism -- engaging, troubling, and in its own way, beautiful.”
—TowardFreedom.com

“As quixotic as the quest may seem, Days of Destruction brings the rhetoric and the reality into a nobler focus after a very disturbing tour.”
—The Star-Ledger (New Jersey)

"It's rare that a book carries so much courage and conviction, forcing reflection and an urge to immediately rectify the problems."
—Bookslut

“A powerful social and political exploration.”
—Midwest Book Review/California Bookwatch

“[Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt] 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'. To describe the book as Dickensian in its horror-show reports of frontline industrial decrepitude and socio-economic dysfunction is to engage in understatement… Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is unapologetically combative and profoundly J'accuse. 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)

“[B]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

“[R]ead Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt to know what is happening in this country.”
—Caffeinated Muslim

“… 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…. This is an excellent book for those who actually need a reason to revolt, and should be read by anyone seeking public office.”
—San Francisco/Sacramento Book Review

“Be prepared for an emotional experience without a happy ending. Be prepared to be defensive. Be prepared to be angry. Be prepared to be ashamed…. [T]he book is accompanied by sections that are a graphic novel approach to the individual stories of the real people interviewed in these zones of despair. What is so overpowering, and discussable, in these biographies is that they read as much like a confessional as they do a history…. Can there be anything more important to discuss?”
—Book Group Buzz, Booklist Online

“This is indeed an extraordinary, must read book.”
—OpEdNews.com

“Sacco's sections are uniformly brilliant. The tone is controlled, the writing smart, the narration neutral…. This is an important book.”
—New York Times Book Review

“An unabashedly polemic, angry manifesto that is certain to open eyes, intensify outrage and incite argument about corporate greed…. Through immersion reportage and graphic narrative, the duo illuminate the human and environmental devastation in those communities, with the warning that no one is immune…. A call for a new American revolution, passionately proclaimed.”
—Kirkus (Starred Review)

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bold Type Books; Reprint edition (April 8, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568588240
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568588247
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Chris Hedges is a cultural critic and author who was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He reported from Latin American, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for the web site Truthdig. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2014
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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.
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Tomas A. Maly
5.0 out of 5 stars IGNORE the FAKE bad reviews, Chris Hedges has important things to say
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2012
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I find it very odd that a handful of bad reviews all came in on the same day, all complaining about issues using on various e-readers. That has nothing to do with the merit of the book itself, and unfortunately those complaints bring down the ratings significantly.

Don't listen to people who gripe about not being able to read this book on their iPad. I suspect those reviews were planted deliberately (and all it cost them was about $40). Also consider who is writing them. Odds are they only have one (this) review or only a hand full and are done all on the same one day/week. Seems like the types of people getting paid to do this (planting negative reviews). Neo-conservatives. Shame on them. Whether the e-readers are a failure or not, Amazon's mistake shouldn't drive down the rating for the printed book. They could at least still leave a 3 or 4 star review and still mention the e-reader problem in the title.

Don't listen to the guy who thinks Chris has nothing important to say. Or that he causes more problems that helps. Honestly, the first and most important part to any solution is hearing the truth. The raw reality of how things are. And Chris does an amazing job of being honest. Things are NOT getting better. Better times are NOT around the corner. The 'economy' (whatever that is) 'turning around' (whatever that means) isn't going to make life all rosy. That's what the media, politicians, corporations, etc all want you to believe. To even remotely consider alternative ways of living, perhaps even radical ways of living, we first have to see the truth so we feel compelled to reject the larger system we are a part of. If we remain blind, numb, comfortable, then we won't ever be motivated to do anything differently or to take charge in our lives. You need to look at the larger spectrum, to look at history, to look at what happened over the past 100 years to make sense of certain situations of today. You will start to see the trends of manipulation, greed, recklessness, selfishness, domination, and deception of the masses to comply with the small few who supposedly know best.

Camden wasn't always a bad place to live. South Jersey used to be a booming economic and industrial area. But today I try to avoid Camden County entirely. It's totally disturbing when you have a run down inner city town with beat-up rowhomes and only 15 minutes away you have swank suburbs in a place like Cherry Hill or even better, Mount Laurel (which I believe is that way merely because it's in a different county, despite it's proximity to Camden).

To complain about Chris not being some saint is preposterous. He's just one man. To even think a single person can be put on a pedestal is ridiculous. Just because he's not the savior of the world doesn't mean his words are useless. Sometimes people are better at some things than others. Whether he makes a comfy living or not is beyond the point. The kind of raw ugly truth that our society is inherently destructive is perhaps the very message we need to hear so we decide to live radically differently. Every last person has a responsibility to live in a sustainable way and to create goodness around them. Perhaps it's because we believe that a small group of people (leaders) can represent everybody, that we are in this mess. Maybe people ought to represent themselves. History has proven that people are largely self-interested, especially the larger the things they have control over.

We have this foolish idea of what options there are for control/power. We seem to be under the illusion that if we are to participate at all, we need to do so on a grand scale, that either we lead the world or we wait to be led. On a large scale of change, leadership, control, etc I think this mentality of all or nothing will end up making most people give up and let the small few who are determined enough to control everything do what they want, and foolishly believe that they somehow care about all of us (and not some agenda). But the thing that I think we fail to see is that power/control doesn't need to be an all-or-nothing thing. We ought to live in smaller independent communities, towns, etc and then participation isn't something so frightening or discouraging. It doesn't feel like we have the weight of the world on our shoulders. So personally, I don't think we can or should expect much of anything from any one individual. We each have the responsibility to participate in our system, and maybe it's best that we do so in a system where participation isn't so overwhelming - on a small community scale, where our web of interdependence isn't so complex that destruction and powerlessness are inherent.

Chris may not have all the answers, and maybe is a bit naive about 'Occupy Wall Street' actually making things better - but to show what mainstream media will not bother discussing - I think it's worth noting and congratulating him for his efforts. At the very least, his writing ought to open your eyes to a very disturbing view of the world, and hopefully open up an interest in seeking the truth in it's many levels through the countless other history/sociology/political books that show society for the sham that it is.
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Marta Oliveira
1.0 out of 5 stars Decepcionante!
Reviewed in Brazil on May 17, 2020
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Decepcionante. Comecei a ler o primeiro capítulo, cuja história conheço bem, e o achei bastante mal escrito. As fontes primárias são interessantes, mas não chegam a dar uma visão equilibrada da situação. A bibliografia é lamentável, todos os brilhantes historiadores e escritores indígenas são ignorados. No final, a visão permanece eurocêntrica. Impossível continuar a leitura até o final. É melhor buscar outras fontes de informação.
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Mark B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Depressing an eye opening
Reviewed in Germany on May 25, 2017
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A joint effort this book mixes comic style with straight prose, to provide an overview of the decline of working class America. Based on interviews brought to life through pictures and text, this is a book you should get if you want a different take on the American dream. I only give it 4 stars instead of 5 because the style of drawings aren't to my taste. But overall, it's a great book.
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Fernando Martín
5.0 out of 5 stars Imprescindible
Reviewed in Spain on July 26, 2015
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Extraordinaria combinación de testimonios de denuncia social con las ilustraciones del maestro Joe Sacco. Un 'must'. La edición es tapa blanda pero de buena calidad.
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1.0 out of 5 stars delusione
Reviewed in Italy on September 22, 2014
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Il libro è privo di copertina (non era specificato nella descrizione).
In piratic ac'è la copertina rigida e non la copertina che si vedeva nella foro del libro.
Inoltre il libro è tappezzato di etichette e prezzi, più volte cambiati e appiccicati l'uno sull'altro. Sulla copertina ci sono macchie di unto.
Le pagine interne sono a posto.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "We have met the enemy and he is us.".....Pogo
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2012
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Using an intriguing style that utilizes both pulp fiction and literary non-fiction styles, Hedges and Sacco have developed a disturbing, yet honest, view of the 'voiceless masses of America'. Being not only previously defeated in former protests but totally unorganized, without political representation and lacking in funding, the four segments of society that were chosen should only be looked upon as being one of the many, one of the nameless victims to unfettered capitalism. The way out of this morass, to be honest, seems to be a near impossibility. While the authors spend a great deal of time at the text's end heralding the Occupy Movement, the result of such an spontaneous process seems, at best, very limited. Why? There are two reasons. First of all the moneyed 1% not only control the economics of the country but its political system as well. And, by doing so, the crowds were broken up through the simple use of police brutality. Across the country this was done not only in an coordinated manner but done under the guises of ignoring one of our sacred Constitutional rights, that of legal protest. The other reason for Occupy's apparent failure lies with the protestors themselves. When the group occupying Zuccotti Square first became newsworthy we immediately related it to the 1960s protests and, in turn, became very hopeful. But this era had one thing that this time is lacking; "skin in the game". It was members of that generation because they had dark skin that were being lynched, beaten and treated inhumanely. It was their personal pain that led to the initiation of those protests. Also, it was members of this generation that held 1A Draft Cards which were a near guarantee of being sent to the killing fields of Southeast Asia. It was them that first chanted "Hell no, we won't go." It was them who protested or fled to Canada such that they could hold onto their chances of mere survival. Lastly, it was the women of our society who led the march against having others be in charge of their bodies and placing glass ceilings above their heads. Such is not the case with the present situation. The occupiers, while of honest spirit and focus, have very little personal involvement with what is happening. They have `little skin in the game'. So when the eventual swarms of billeted police attacked their rightful positions, they fled. Oh, yes, they may have returned, even more than once, but eventually the blind force of corporatism won out and the public parks remain empty to this date. Our actions since this time against the evils that the book portrays have done little good as well. While we feel somewhat comforted in signing a computer-driven protest sheet or send on a shocking news item through Facebook, this may actually be the devil in disguise for we may begin to feel that our obligation to the aide of this situation is done. After all, we signed a petition, didn't we? Such attitudes, unfortunately, keep us prone in our chairs rather than actively out on the streets as we should be.

Chris Hedges, in the text's final paragraphs, holds onto the hope that the Operation Movement give. Is he naively stupid or is it myself who is inane through the lack of hope? Only time will tell and only time can show the way upward or downward. When the raft is sinking is it better to hold onto to something, anything in hopes that it will continue to allow you to breath or is it better to view reality for what it is and to completely let go? Chris says to hold on and I, at this point, choose not to argue with him. As the my summary title states; "We have met the enemy and he is us.". This, too, defines the plight of the USA as it appears before us. Is there an answer to the cruel prison which we have entrapped ourselves in? There must be or life, as we have come to know of it, has ceased to exist. We just aren't aware of it yet......
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