Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the "Washington Post"
Three ye
ars ago, Pulitzer Prizewinner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and jour
nalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in A
merica that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progres
s, and technological advancement. They wanted to show in words and drawings what
life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, wher
e human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize pro
fit. "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" is the searing account of their trave
ls."