By Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
In “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award-winning graphic artist Joe Sacco offer an illustrated exposé of how corporate greed and government indifference have unleashed unbridled socio-economic decay in the United States. With uncompromising portraits of the often forgotten underclass that subsists at the lowest rank of American life, Hedges and Sacco put forth a searing indictment of the human, ecological, and moral costs of the excesses of unregulated corporate capitalism. Turning its gaze to the still active Occupy movement, this stirring testament to the need for radical change provides an eye-opening, often shocking vision of the way we live now.
A blend of investigative reportage and graphic narrative, “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” focuses on five disenfranchised segments of the American story. Unlike any other study of the current dilemma, “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” takes a singular approach that is steeped in unimpeachable research and yet put a very human face on the problems that none of us should be permitted to ignore. The pain and despair that Hedges and Sacco capture in both word and image is a palpable reminder that we cannot continue on this road.
