About the Author

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He spent nearly two decades as a correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, with fifteen years at the New York Times. He is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Empire of Illusion Death of the Liberal Class War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-wrote with Joe Sacco. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Reviews

Anyone who doubts that politics in the first half of the Obama administration has been dirty and a bit frightening should listen to this book. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist/New York Times best-selling author Hedges is not going for laughs here, nor is he simply pointing a finger at a few overzealous pundits; rather, he convincingly argues and supports his view that liberal politics as we know it is as vicious and deceitful as any political philosophy in recent history. Narrator Arthur Morey (arthurmorey.com) gives Hedges's work the solemnity it deserves. Bound to antagonize those of the mind that American participation in global politics (e.g., wars) is guided by idealism and a sincere belief that were other countries to behave as the United States does, this would be a better world. An enlightening, fluff-free title highly recommended for academic libraries and for collections with extensive holdings in political science.-Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg Air Force Base Lib., Lompoc, CA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.