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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt about Best, Books, Month with the genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government.
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conversations.value: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000805601"><strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012</strong></a>: From the dusty plains of North Dakota to the coal-veined hills of West Virginia to the desolate and ravaged streets of Camden N.J., Pulitzer Prize winner the author and award-winning cartoonist/journalist Joe Sacco introduce us to the nation's "sacrifice zones"--those regions where, in the authors' view, corporate greed has run wild, and the locals have suffered. A unique mashup of investigative journalism, man-on-the-street reportage, graphic novel, and anti-corporate manifesto, the result is a riveting and often chilling account of America's forgotten zones. The balance between the author' narrative nonfiction storytelling and Sacco's intimate and very human sketches is surprisingly effective. And the stark depictions (both written and visual) of abandoned coal mines and empty downtowns and crumbling houses are heartbreaking, as are the stories of people struggling to survive. This is a special and important book. -- Neal Thompson