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<p>The author of <i>City of Quartz</i> and <i>Planet of Slums</i> attacks the current fashion for empires and white men’s burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits <i>Star Wars</i> 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 “teeny-bopper” riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats in Kansas and West Virginia; remembers “Private Ivan,” who defeated fascism; and looks at the future of capitalism from the top of Hubbert’s Peak.</p> <p>No writer in the United States today brings together analysis and history as comprehensively and elegantly as Mike Davis. In these contemporary, interventionist essays, Davis goes beyond critique to offer real solutions and concrete possibilities for change.</p> <p>"Davis remains our penman of lost souls and lost scenarios: He culls nuggets of avarice and depredation the way miners chisel coal."<br> —<i>The Nati

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Author

Mike Davis; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

Haymarket Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282647688

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Political Science

Rating

3.86 / 5 (116 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14