Chris Hedges: 18 books
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate.
America,...
American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War On America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses,...
When Atheism Becomes Religion
America's New Fundamentalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.
Chris...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In the face of modern conditions, revolution is inevitable. The rampant inequality that exists between the political and corporate elites and the struggling masses; the destruction wreaked upon our environment by faceless, careless corporations; the steady stripping away of our civil liberties and...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student,...
Unspeakable
Talks with David Talbot about the Most Forbidden Topics in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist discusses America’s most taboo topics in a no-holds-barred extended interview with Salon founder David Talbot.
Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. An intellectual heir to heroes...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and...
The World As It Is
Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Many liberals are disappointed with Barack Obama. Some talk of betrayal,” while others are writing abject letters to the White House asking the president to come back to his true self.” Chris Hedges, however, is a progressive who doesn't feel betrayed. Obama was and is a brand,” he argues....
Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth.
An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary...
by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post
Three years ago, Pulitzer Prizewinner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in...
Loving This Planet
Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make A Better World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: “A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse.” —Booklist
A co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century...
Losing Moses on the Freeway
The 10 Commandments in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
The 10 Commandments -- the laws given to Moses by God -- are beyond the scope of human law. They are rules meant to hold us together but, when dishonored, they lead to discord and violence.
In this fierce, articulate narrative, Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, looks...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good,...
Collateral Damage
America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Collateral Damage brings together testimony from the largest number of on the record, named, combat veterans who reveal the disturbing, daily reality of war and occupation in Iraq.
Through their eyes, we learn how the mechanics of war lead to the abuse and frequent killing of innocents. They...
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