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- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2008
Summary
The Shock Doctrine: Profiteering from Disaster
‘Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell’ John le Carre
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors.
Thrilling and revelatory, The Shock Doctrine cracks open the secret history of our era. E…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780141024530 |
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ISBN-10: | 0141024534 |
Author: | Naomi Klein |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 576 |
Edition: | 1st |
Release Date: | 1 June 2008 |
Weight: | 397g |
Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell John le Carre Packed with thinking dynamite … a book to be read everywhere John Berger If you read only one non-fiction book this year, make it this one – , Books of the Year Metro There are few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books – John Gray Guardian Lucid, calm, impeccably researched, gorgeously readable – , Books of the Year Observer A brilliant, brave and terrifying book Arundhati Roy Powerful … epic … dramatic Daily Telegraph A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger, channelled through hard fact. She has indeed surpassed No Logo Independent Excoriating … passionate and informed … Her prose packs a punch Scotsman
About The Author
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything- Capitalism vs the Climate, and No Is Not Enough- Defeating the New Shock Politics. In 2017 she joined The Intercept as Senior Correspondent. Recent articles have also appeared in the Guardian, The Nation, The New York Times, the New Yorker and Le Monde. In November 2016 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in Australia.
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