Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of the bestseller American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist fo more...
Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of the bestseller American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lannan Literary Fellow and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. less...
Hedges states that his outlook is influenced by moral writers and ethicists such as George Orwell, Samuel Johnson, Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti and theologians such as William Stringfellow, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Abraham Heschel, and Reinhold Niebuhr.
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Using a diverse array of literature references, and a rarely seen gift for insight into the human condition, Chris Hedges composes a singular critique of war for our day. Using his experiences as a war reporter for the AP, Chris speaks with authority and never pulls his punches. You will be changed once you have read this book. It is one of the most important books I have ever read, and I cannot recommend it enough.
Using a diverse array of literature references, and a rarely seen gift for insight into the human condition, Chris Hedges composes a singular critique of war for our day. Using his experiences as a war reporter for the AP, Chris speaks with authority and never pulls his punches. You will be changed once you have read this book. It is one of the most important books I have ever read, and I cannot recommend it enough.