Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed in the giddy race for land and empire. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted and in decay. It follows the steady downward spiral of American labor into the nation's produce fields and ends in Zuccotti Park where a new generation revolts against a corporate state that has handed to the young an economic, political, cultural and environmental catastrophe."(W) Chris Hedges (A/CA) Joe Sacco