From David James Duncan’s Foreword for Cracked. Release date: May 2
“Steve Hawley has written, and Patagonia has brilliantly supported, an undamming book powerful beyond anything I thought possible in a time of cynicism, greed, and cave troll politics. Cracked is itself a mass-breaching of the lies, corruption, and betrayals that have fueled an insane parade of dam-building by disembodied bureaucracies and totalitarian governments worldwide. This book from beginning to end is a tour de force. This book affirms Nick Cave’s thesis that a cynic is just an optimist with a crushed heart that can be mended and filled with hope once again. I know this because one such heart, as I read Cracked, was beating in me.”