Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Paperback, 228 pages
ISBN: 9781844672943
September 2008
$16.95 / £7.99
Other Editions
ISBN: 9781844671328
April 2007
$22.95 / £12.99
Reviews
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“Davis creates a fascinating genealogy that raises chilling questions about the future of terrorism. ”
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“Mike Davis, long-time chronicler of apocalyptic terror, has done it again: he has made me scared ... The brilliance of Davis's story is undeniable.”
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“Mike Davis follows the evolution of the car bomb from the Balkans to Palestine, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Lebanon and, of course, Iraq.”
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“Brilliantly terse ... Davis writes with icily suppressed fury.”
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New Left Review - issue 79 out now
New Left Review 79 is out now featuring the following articles:
Mike Davis: The Last White Election
Surveying the US political landscape, Mike Davis identifies the complex social and geographical determinants of Obama's November victory. Within an increasingly polarized ideological force field, how will the coming struggles between Democratic President and Senate and Republican House unfold?
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Mike Davis: Wall Street through the augmented eyes of “Rowdy” Roddy Piper
Who could have envisioned Occupy Wall Street and its sudden wildflower-like profusion in cities large and small?
John Carpenter could have, and did. Almost a quarter of a century ago (1988), the master of date-night terror (Halloween, The Thing), wrote and directed They Live, depicting the Age of Reagan as a catastrophic alien invasion. In one of the film’s brilliant early scenes, a huge third-world shantytown is reflected across the Hollywood Freeway in the sinister mirror-glass of Bunker Hill’s corporate skyscrapers.
They Live remains Carpenter’s subversive tour de force. Few who’ve seen it could forget his portrayal of billionaire bankers and evil mediacrats and their zombie-distant rule over a pulverized American working class living in tents on a rubble-strewn hillside and begging for jobs. From this negative equality of homelessness and despair, and thanks to the magic dark glasses found by the enigmatic Nada (played by “Rowdy” Roddy Piper), the proletariat finally achieves interracial unity, sees through the subliminal deceptions of capitalism, and gets angry.
Very angry.
