Going Postal: School Shootings, Workplace Massacres, and the Untold History of America's Failed Rebellions
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 159376264X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITIONIncisive.” Publishers WeeklyIt's a fairly powerful event to find a decent-sized book that does nothing but articulate a series of truths about the American Life you've hardly read about or spoken about, but just simply felt Going Postal is such a book.” AlterNetA breezy, barroom Foucault audacious, necessary reading.” Eye WeeklyAmes’s conclusions are chilling This is dark and serious stuff.” Philadelphia WeeklyWell argued, intense, and unique.” GiantA fascinating slice of cultural history that also offers up that rarest of things: an original idea.” New York PressGoing Postal places office shootings in the context of a workforce that's faced massive, impersonal layoffs, and workers who find themselves just scraping by while their bosses live like kings It’s a fascinating book Ames has a clear and refreshing compassion for the people who head to work every day.” ForbesA startling analysis, fizzing with the caustic, no-prisoners rage Ames perfected as the editor of The exile Ames' fury feels fresher and more morally authentic than the usual Subaru-bumper-sticker critique of the Wal-Mart Era.” Willamette Week
American workers and children are rebelling violently all around us. With the economy slumping and shooting rampages seemingly on the rise, Ames’s wide-scoped explanations have never been more prudent.. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context, thereby revealing their true meaning. He explores numerous fascinating and unexpected cases in detail, showing that as with slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Ames updates this edition with an eye toward recent events, including several new essays taking on the violent episodes at Northern Illinois and Virginia Tech universities, as well as workplace outrages like that in Alabama in March 2009. Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has both plagued and baffled America for the last three decades, offering provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980swhen Reaganomics began to widen the gap between ex