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Praise for Going Postal 'Incisive' Publishers Weekly 'Caustic, and funny...a must-read'- Rolling Stone on Mark Ames' The eXile. 'Fascinating' - Forbes Magazine “Mark, I am sitting in a train reading your book and just wanted to tell you I find it great, not good, great. I will do everything I can to make you fucking famous.” Michalis Pantelouris, Editor in Chief, Red Bull magazine 
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Mark Ames's Going Postal 
About Going PostalGoing Postal examines the phenomenon of rage murder that took America by storm in the early 1980's and has since grown more and more prevalent in body counts and symbolic value. By looking at massacres in schools and offices as post-industrial rebellions, Mark Ames is able to draw a continuum from the historical place of rage in America to the social climate after the greed-is-good '80s began to effect worker's pockets. But why schools? Why post offices? Mark Ames examines the most fascinating and unexpected cases, crafting a convincing argument for workplace massacres as modern day slave rebellions. Like slave rebellions, rage massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Going Postal seeks to contextualise this violence in a world where working isn't - and doesn't pay - what it used to. Part social critique and part true crime page-turner, Going Postal answers the questions asked by the media and films such as Bowling for Columbine. Key sales points Hard hitting, polemical narrative about the causes and effects of workplace rage in the US. Sells well alongside books such as Fast Food Nation and films like Bowling for Columbine. Mark Ames is a well-respected journalist and writer for the international press, and for the Guardian in the UK. |
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