Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award -nominated RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.
"Searing portraits . . . of individuals victimized in six arenas
that [Hedges] explores in detail: drug addiction, pornography,
gambling, the criminal justice system, extremist groups and the
search for meaningful, well-paid work. He takes the reader inside
these issues in ways that are often telling and memorable." --
Thomas Carothers * The Washington Post *
"Chris Hedges wants us to face realities. Our society is
unraveling, institutionally and structurally, and is being replaced
by the corporate state of merging big business and government.
Commercialism overwhelms civic values, impoverishes its subjects,
and reaches into childhoods bypassing parental authority. Poverty,
addiction, gambling, and hopelessness spread like epidemics. Only
we the people can reverse the disintegration of democracy by
plutocracy. In America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges
depicts the horrifying truths on the ground from which resistance
rises to jolt us into an active, realizable culture of
reconstruction." -- Ralph Nader
"An exceedingly dark, passionate, and provocative book, certain to
arouse controversy but offering a point of view that needs to be
heard." * Booklist *
"Chris Hedges is perhaps today's most important public
intellectual, and America: the Farewell Tour is perhaps his
most important book. If we as a society are able to move past our
current 'sickness unto death,' as Kierkegaard put it, it will be in
great measure thanks to books like this one." -- Derrick Jensen,
author of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make
Believe
"Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream. . . . [A] fiery
sermon that weighs the nation and finds it wanting." * Kirkus
Reviews *
"Hedges's latest critique of late-stage capitalist America is
forceful and direct." * Publishers Weekly *
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