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Mike Davis delivers a brilliant defense of the Occupy movement and offers pragmatic advice to the 99%.
  • 17 July 2012
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With wit and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the 99%, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the struggle– what is to be done next?

Mike Davis is the author of more than twenty books.

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Price: $9.95
Pages: 48
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date: 17 July 2012
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.63 in
ISBN: 9781608462179
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social classes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Central / national / federal government policies, Society and culture: general, Political control and freedoms, Political science and theory
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Named a Macarthur Fellow in 1998, he was also honored for distinguished achievement in nonfiction writing by the Lannan Literary Foundation. Professor Davis is the author of more than 20 books and more than 100 book chapters and essays in the scholarly and elite popular press. His scholarly interest span urban studies, the built environment, economic history and social movements. Perhaps his best known book, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles was named a best book in urban politics by the American Political Science Association and won the Isaac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics and has been translated into eight languages.
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