ABOUT THE BOOK:

The author of CITY OF QUARTZ and PLANET OF SLUMS attacks the current fashion for empires and white men’s burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers such contemporary idols as Niall Ferguson and Howard Dean; debates with Tom Frank about ‘what’s wrong with America;’ unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the Border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and 1960s; remembers ‘Private Ivan’ who defeated fascism; recalls the ‘teeny bopper riots’ on Sunset Strip; and looks at the future of global capitalism from the top of Hubbert’s Peak.


PRAISE:

“A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one."

– Susan Faludi

“[Davis' writing is] perceptive and rigorous."

– David Montgomery, The Nation

“[Davis' work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."

– The Village Voice

“[Davis' work is] eloquent and passionate."

– Tariq Ali


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in San Diego.


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