migrant workers assigned to pick tomatoes in worker camps in Florida and individuals suffering from and resisting mountain-top removal by coal companies in West Virginia. The reader is introduced to despaired people living on the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in South Dakota the homeless of Camden, N.J. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt describes the predicament of the rapidly growing underclass in the States, victims of corporate capitalism in what Hedges refers to as “sacrifice zones,” areas that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit. At first sight Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt belongs solidly in the same tradition as books such as James Agee and Walker Evans’s classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which grew out of an assignment in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions sharecropper families in the South lived under during the “Dust Bowl,” as well as William T.
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