American workers and children are rebelling violently all around us.
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 1980s--when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and
average-worker earnings--Ames crafts a convincing argument that these
schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave
rebellions. 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. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this
book seeks to set these murders in their proper context, thereby
revealing their true meaning. 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. With the economy
slumping and shooting rampages seemingly on the rise, Ames's wide-scoped
explanations have never been more prudent.
