Description: The bestselling author of "No Logo" argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for 50 years.
Brief description: Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the bestselling author of Doppelganger, No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and other classic books, which have been translated into thirty-five languages. She is an associate professor of geography and codirector of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia, and she writes a regular column for The Guardian. Doppelganger was the winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction and was named one of the ten best books of the year by New York magazine, Slate, and Time.
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"Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell."
--John le Carré, author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
--San Francisco Chronicle "This is a brilliant book, one of the most important I have read in a long time."
--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "Klein provides a rich description of the political machinations required to force unsavory economic policies on resisting countries and of the human toll. She paints a disturbing portrait of hubris, not only on the part of Friedman but also of those who adopted his doctrines, sometimes to pursue more corporatist objectives."
--Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant, brave, and terrifying book. It's nothing less than the secret history of what we call the 'free market.' It should be compulsory reading."
--Arundhati Roy, author of Mother Mary Comes to Me "Pulls the curtain back on free-market myths and exposes the forces that are really driving our economy . . . Klein's book is powerful and prophetic. . . . A brilliant dissection."
--HuffPost "Naomi Klein is one of the most important new voices in American journalism today."
--Seymour M. Hersh, author of Reporter "The Shock Doctrine is the defining, covert history of our era."
--Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army