--- product_id: 4776450 title: "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" brand: "chris hedgesjoe sacco" price: "€ 32.76" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/4776450-days-of-destruction-days-of-revolt store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt **Brand:** chris hedgesjoe sacco **Price:** € 32.76 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by chris hedgesjoe sacco - **How much does it cost?** € 32.76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/4776450-days-of-destruction-days-of-revolt) ## Best For - chris hedgesjoe sacco enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted chris hedgesjoe sacco brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt ## Images ![Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81wu7sLfNNL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Deeply Disturbing Content *by S***P on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 15, 2019* This book is extremely difficult, emotionally, to read through. I've been having to take it one chapter at a time because it is so heartwrenching. I've had the book for 2 months now (since May 29th) and I've just finished chapter 3. I'm not a slow reader, I probably could've finished it in a few hours if it weren't for the content involved. I am deeply moved (to lamentations and profound listlessness) after reading about what has happened. I especially found it difficult to get past the racially charged content but I did for the sole purpose of understanding the very real torment and pain that fellow Americans have endoured from all backgrounds. I wanted to put the book down in anger several times but like seeing a trainwreck happen in slow motion, no one can look away. If there is anything to say about this book, it is that it illicits compassion and understanding for those outside your own cultural background, because the book talks about many in so short a discussion. If you aren't crying at any point (inside or out) by end of chapter 3 or affected on a profound level by what you've read, then you fail to have placed yourself in the shoes of those outside your experiences. So many lives have been destroyed. So many. If there's anything I learned so far it is that you don't need to call it a war for it to be a detrimental and violent experience for those affected. Lady Liberty is patina from all the tears she weeps.I study global scale problems, looking for newly released technological or philosophical answers for solving them on regional and localized scales. I haven't yet been able to get past the sadness associated with the content of this book to even begin to seek out potential solutions yet. Something has been going very, very wrong on such a grand design scale and for so long that I question the viability and survivability of the culture and way of life I was born into. I fear for my fellow Americans from all walks of life, all creeds, cultures and backgrounds. The silence is deafening and the violence of it all is overwhelming at it's core.The only reason I knocked off one star for this book is because there are pointed statements, claims that where made generalized rather then specified. The writer seems to have painted a picture in terms of black and white, us and them. I haven't completed reading the book yet, so will update this review upon completion. I STRONGLY advocate its purchase or at the very least read it cover to cover if your local library has a copy. If you are a problem solver, this work is a complicated challenge quagmired in political swamps, social upheaval and a kind of financial instability that can only best be described as "complete insolvency for the future of humanity as a civilized society due to greed." There is nothing civil about it, and this book cuts to the core of a profoundly disturbing subject. Financial interests have taken priority over the human element.Update: July 22nd. Upon completion of reading the book, cover to cover I must conclude that my opinion on the content hasn't changed much. There are some elements of racism contained in this book but the context must be read to understand and determine where it is coming from. There are also strong anti-capitalist sentiments within the content, but coming from the standpoint of environmental degredation as well as the complete disregard for human life and human capital as they pertain to community stability overall. The book is a STRONG BUY, if only for the storytelling element alone. Though I am concerned that the book may incite hate towards specific ethnicities rather than identified individuals, the authors do a fantastic job of bringing to light stories not otherwise searchable in news and other media outlets. I stand firm on my stance that the book has strong elements of "us vs. them" mentalities, and there is clearly zero understanding involved in how the stock market or business works on a fundamental level. If I had a sit down with the author, it would result in another book. I've been working on a way to serve the disenfranchised by developing "plug and play" or "key in door" solutions that can be emulated on shoestring budgets and from 3rd world country scenarios. I've found a few solutions to some of the elements the problems the author speaks about and the potential to end unemployment as we know it today without dropping elements of automation which have affected everyone around the world.In this highly competitive 21st century we live in, we must understand as a combined force- humanity as a whole, that automation offers us all the freedom from menial tasks which limit our own potential. The missing element in the economy thus far has been the complete replacement of the old, dead system which has never worked for anyone born after 1975. What we need are those automations made cheaper and available to more consumers for the purpose of dropping industry pricing and more home based businesses.My own solutions focus on environmental restoration as a commercial endeavor and to alleviate the brunt of prolonged unemployment through financial tactics and combined efforts of business endeavors. The author's sequal should focus entirely on the solutions the world has come up with to resolve the existing problems of today. As much as I appreciate the history lesson, it doesn't help the starving homeless and the bankrupted disenfranchised to look for a target group to blame for all these ills. Instead, step out of the 20th century decay and rot. Stroll effortlessly right into the 21st century, where the age of collaboration has reached full swing and is now cresting and about to overlap the next age.This book is a fascinating read and I am deeply affected by it on an emotional level. However, cerebrally, I've already jumped past the problems and have been trying to find the solutions. Humanity literally doesn't have the time left required to fight out a war and the kind of war we need isn't against one another but a race against the clock to rebalance the earth's ecosystem before it's too late. I personally feel that we may have already passed the point of no return with the climate but trying to place blame on one group of people doesn't fix the problem but instead serves as a distraction when there is real work to be done. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Brilliant Snapshot Of A Nation In Despair *by N***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 16, 2013* There is so much to like about Chris Hedges's and Joe Sacco's, Days of Destruction Days of Revolt (Nation Books, New York, 2012), I hardly know where to begin. What's not to like when a book that speaks the unvarnished truth? Corporations flourish, ordinary people languish; the super rich get richer, ordinary people suffer; the American Dream is an illusion, with "winners" tap-dancing uneasily over the freshly dug graves of those for who have long since lost hope. Do you want change? Behold the national security state, the smartly clad and well-armed local police departments, the smug prosecutors, Wall Street and the politicos, dancing hand-in-hand round and round in Washington while the rest of us turn away in disgust. Hedges tells it like it is. Sacco illustrates. This work is part text and part graphic presentation. I was at first put off by the graphic component. Times are grim. This is no time for comic books, I found myself thinking. But as I studied the graphic portraits of despair in such places as the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the desolate streets of Camden, New Jersey, the desiccated mountains of West Virginia, or the plantation-like cruelty supporting the tomato harvesting agribusiness in Immokalee, Florida, I was moved by the grimness on the look of the characters' faces. These line drawings convey what words have difficulty expressing. Call it dignified hopelessness: There are Americans who read their death warrants written on corporate ledgers of firms too big to fail who nonetheless continue to speak the truth. I devoured this book in an afternoon, feeling as though I had found friends: My ruminations about a country adrift, corporate fat-cats hand-in-hand with their cronies in government turning the nation into a fascist fat farm, these thoughts don't mark me as a solitary grievant. There are thousands, if not millions, of Americans thinking and feeling the same thing. Hedges gives voice to a grumbling evidence to any who will listen. Hedges and Sacco traveled to some of the most distressed regions of the country to see how the dispossessed live. Their reports are grim: Alcoholism and despair on the Pine Ridge reservation; drug use and rage in the ghetto; fear and exhaustion in immigrant communities; wary resignation in coal country. But alongside all this misery the bitch goddess profit and her handmaidens in the form of corporate thuggery and political diffidence among the elite. It's enough to make you want to ... Well, what, exactly? The book ends with a chapter on the Occupy Movement that flourished in an instant, and then vanished almost as quickly as it came. Hedges interviews Occupiers, and you can hear something like flinty hope in their voices. They may not have had a vision of how to reconstruct a better world. It was enough to assert that the world as it is fails to deliver what is both needed and promised. There was, and there remains, a value in refusal. Where has that struggle gone? Hedges writes too briefly about a trial in Utah of an activist named Tim DeChristopher, who disrupted a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008 - he sought to impede the Bush administration's selling of federal land to gas and oil interests. DeChristopher hoped to rely on jury nullification to defend himself. He was devastated when the judge told jurors they could do no such thing. The judge "said it was not their job to decide [what]... is right or wrong, but to listen to what he said the law was and follow that even if they thought it was morally unjust. They were not allowed to use their conscience." The fact that he was surprised by the fact that the law can be applied devoid of conscience was oddly refreshing. Perhaps people can be taught to reclaim their sovereignty. When DeChristopher was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison, he told the judge: "I am here today because I have chosen to protect the people locked out of the system over the profits of the corporations running the system. I say this not because I want your mercy, but because I want you to join me." Fat chance the judge will do that; it is far easier to decide cases according to law, to put blinders on about who writes the law to serve what interest -- a sleeping people are easily managed. Jury nullification remains, in my view, a powerful means of citizens' taking direct action to challenge the law, a topic I wrote about at length in Juries and Justice. (Sutton Hart, 2013). I've not seen enough written on the topic and its potential to radicalize and mobilize ordinary people in literature about what can be done to reclaim the promise of the American dream. The final chapter on the Occupy movement rings with hope and fiery prose. "There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt or you stand on the wrong side of history." I like the sentiment, but the call to "create monastic enclaves where we can retain and nurture the values being rapidly destroyed by the wider corporate culture and build the mechanisms of self-sufficiency that will allow us to survive," rings a little defeatist and hollow - even prosaic, even if, as it seems, it is the only realistic course. The American century has ended, and with it visions of common dreams. And that is, I suppose, the flaw in this otherwise wonderful book. The world is unhinged. Corporations and government are joined at the hip in a new form of something like fascism. The new national security or surveillance state promises security at the expense of a numbing uniformity. If ever there were a time that the anarchists in our history looked like prophets, it is now. I wonder why Hedges couldn't bring himself more directly say so? When even radicals pull punches the future seems dark indeed. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Powerful polemic but… *by P***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 28, 2023* The first four chapters in this book are polemical but powerful with the message greatly enhanced by the superb contributions from Joe Sacco.Unfortunately, as is so often the case with this type of writing, when the author moves from reportage into prescription the quality falls through the floor.The final chapter, Days of Revolt, is just silly. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/4776450-days-of-destruction-days-of-revolt](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/4776450-days-of-destruction-days-of-revolt) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-05-25*