Description: Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into fascism, through harrowing stories of the Philippines state-sponsored assassinations of its citizens. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I dont wait very long.Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new democracy for the Philippines. Three decades later, a nation that once taught the world the meaning of nonviolent resistance discovers the fragility of its democratic principles under the regime of populist autocrat Rodrigo Duterte.Some People Need Killing is Evangelistas meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines ongoing drug war and Dutertes assault on the countrys fledgling democracy. Over the past five years, Evangelista has had the distinctive beat of chronicling the extrajudicial killings ordered by Duterte and carried out by police and gangs of government vigilantes, counting the body bags and speaking to the killers and survivors, and capturing the atmosphere of fear that comes when an elected president claims powers well beyond those granted to him. The book gets its title from a vigilante named Simon, who seemed to reflect the psychological accommodation that most of the country had made when he told Evangelista this: Im really not a bad guy, he said. Im not all bad. Some people need killing.A journalistic tour de force, Some People Need Killing is a powerful contribution to the journalism of witness, and an investigation into the universal impulse toward domination and resistance, as told through a drug war that has led to the slaughter of thousands. Author Biography Patricia Evangelista is a Manila-based trauma journalist and ASU Future Security Fellow covering disaster, conflict and human rights issues. She was a fellow at the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship. Her reporting on armed conflict and the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan was awarded the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. She lives in Manila. Table of Contents 1: Positive 2: The Surviving Majority 3: Mascot for Hope 4: The Rise of the Punisher 5: Defend the Mayor 6: Salvation 7: How to Identify an Addict 8: How to Kill an Addict 9: My Friend Domingo 10: Some People Need Killing 11: Djastin with a D 12: My Father Is a Policeman 13: Acts of Contrition Review A journalistic masterpiece . . . One of the most remarkable pieces of narrative nonfiction I have read in a long, long time -- David Remnick * New Yorker *Powerful...Evangelista makes us feel the fear and grief that she felt as she chronicled what Duterte was doing to her country. But appealing to our emotions is only part of it; what makes this book so striking is that she wants us to think about what happened, too. * New York Times *An extraordinary book...not just a documentation of the drug war, but a history of the Philippines; an account of what brought Duterte to power; and a rumination on what it is like to be a journalist covering brutal atrocities -- Sally Hayden * Irish Times *Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story -- Tara Westover, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of EDUCATEDIn this blindingly ambitious, unfathomably brave, fiercely reported book, Patricia Evangelista exposes the evil in her country with perfect clarity fueled by profound rage, her narrative voice at once utterly brutal and terrifyingly vulnerable. In short, clear sentences packed with faithfully recorded details, she reveals the nature of unbridled cruelty with an insightfulness that I have not encountered since the work of Hannah Arendt...Few of historys grimmest chapters have had the fortune to be narrated by such a withering, ironic, witty, devastatingly brilliant observer. You may think you are inured to shock, but this book is an exploding bomb that will damage you anew, making you wiser as it does so -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award–winning author of FAR FROM THE TREEIn this haunting work of memoir and reportage, Patricia Evangelista both describes the origins of autocratic rule in the Philippines, and explains its universal significance. The cynicism of voters, the opportunism of Filipino politicians, the appeal of brutality and violence to both groups - all of this will be familiar to readers, wherever they are from -- Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACYA beautiful, gripping and essential book that paints a picture of how autocracy takes root -- Ben Rhodes, author of AFTER THE FALL: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World Weve MadeShattering...an astonishing and frightening exposé that wont soon be forgotten * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Analytical, ambitious and told with empathy, this will stand as a definitive historical account of the Phillippines drug war * Booklist (starred review) *Heartbreaking personal stories underscore the consequences of a government-incited extrajudicial rampage * Kirkus Reviews * Details ISBN1804710067 Author Patricia Evangelista Publisher Atlantic Books Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781804710067 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-11-02 Imprint Grove Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-11-02 UK Release Date 2023-11-02 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Edition Description Main ISBN-10 1804710067 DEWEY 959.9053 NZ Release Date 2024-01-22 Subtitle Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Non-Fiction Pages 448 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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