"A profoundly disquieting (and downright shocking) portrait of modern America" (The Times) that takes readers across the country to discover the toll of capitalism

In 2010, 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.

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he was their Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He is a New York Times bestselling author of sixteen books, including Empire of Illusion, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, and American Fascists. He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University and writes at chrishedges.substack.com. 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 the American Book Award-winning Palestine; the Ridenhour Book Prize and Eisner Award winner Footnotes in Gaza; Safe Area Gora?de and War on Gaza, both also Eisner Award winners; Paying the Land; and The Once and Future Riot. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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.