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  | | Death of the Liberal Class(1st Edition) by Chris Hedges Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2011 by Bold Type Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-679-3, ISBN: 1-56858-679-5 "For decades the liberal class was a defense against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class— the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions—have collapsed. In its absence, the poor, the working class, and even the middle class no longer have a champion. In this searing polemic Chris Hedges indicts liberal institutions, including his former employer, the New ..." |
 | | Empire of Illusion(Reprint) The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges, Nation Books Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-613-7, ISBN: 1-56858-613-2 " p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Pulitzer prize-winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion above all else.We now live in two Americas. One--now the minority--functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other--the majority-- ..." |
 | | When Atheism Becomes Religion(9th Edition) America's New Fundamentalists by Chris Hedges Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-7078-3, ISBN: 1-4165-7078-0 "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 Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, has long been a courageous voice in a world where there are too few. He ob ..." |
 | | American Fascists(Reprint) The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2008 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-8446-2, ISBN: 0-7432-8446-1 "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, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In "American Fascists, " Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of th ..." |
 | | Losing Moses on the Freeway(Reprint) The 10 Commandments in America by Chris Hedges Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5514-1, ISBN: 0-7432-5514-3 "In "Losing Moses on the Freeway," Chris Hedges, veteran war correspondent and author of the bestselling "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," delivers an impassioned, eloquent call to heed the wisdom of the 10 Commandments. Celebrated for his courageous reporting on the crucial issues of our time, Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, explores the challenge of living according to these moral precepts we have ..." |
 | | War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning(Reprint) by Chris Hedges Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-61039-359-1, ISBN: 1-61039-359-7 "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 has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it war can be exhilarating and even addictive It gives us purpose mea ..." |
 | | Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt(1st Edition) by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-643-4, ISBN: 1-56858-643-4 "Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation. It is also the most dangerous. The city's real unemployment hard to estimate, since many residents have been severed from the formal economy for generations is probably 30 to 40 percent. The median household income is $24,600. There is a 70 percent high school dropout rate, with only 13 percent of students managing to pass the state's prof ..." |
 | | Empire of Illusion(1st Edition) The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2009 by Nation Books Bookmark Calendar ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-437-9, ISBN: 1-56858-437-7 "A Pulitzer prize-winning and "NYT" bestselling author charts the political, social and cultural consequences of the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate America that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. The "New York Times" bestselling author of "American Fascists" travels in Empire of Illusion to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to write about the pornographic film industry ..." |
 | | Collateral Damage(1st Edition) America's War Against Iraqi Civilians by Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian, Eugene Richards Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-373-0, ISBN: 1-56858-373-7 "Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers—many of who remain deeply traumatized by their experiences—uncover how the very conduct of the war and occupation have turned the American forces into agents of terror for most Iraqis.Collateral Damage ..." |
 | | American Fascists(1st Edition) The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-8443-1, ISBN: 0-7432-8443-7 "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, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In "American Fascists, " Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of th ..." |
 | | What Every Person Should Know About War(1st Edition) by Chris Hedges, Dominick Anfuso Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2003 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5512-7, ISBN: 0-7432-5512-7 "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 a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of co ..." |
 | | America(Reprint) The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-5268-9, ISBN: 1-5011-5268-8 "Chris Hedges’s profound and unsettling 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, says Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, ..." |
 | | The World As It Is(Reprint) Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2013 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-728-8, ISBN: 1-56858-728-7 "Acclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges is one of the great moral voices of our age. He has the rare combination of decades of experience reporting from conflict zones in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, and the erudition one would expect from a student of Christian ethics and the classics at Harvard University. He prizes the truth over news and facts. And in the pursuit of truth he has risk ..." |
 | | Death of the Liberal Class(1st Edition) by Chris Hedges Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-644-1, ISBN: 1-56858-644-2 "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, to define ourselves as a good and noble people. Most importantly, on behalf of the power elite the liberal class serves as bulwarks again ..." |
 | | War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning(Reprint) by Chris Hedges, Michael Kammen Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3463-5, ISBN: 1-4000-3463-9 "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, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: “It gives us p ..." |
 | | War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning(1st Edition) by Chris Hedges Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-049-3, ISBN: 1-58648-049-9 "A veteran New York Times war correspondent's complex, moving, and thought-provoking reflection on how life is lived most intensely in times of war. General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have beco ..." |
 | | Unspeakable(Reprint) by Chris Hedges, David Talbot Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Hot Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2942-1, ISBN: 1-5107-2942-9 ""Hedges insights and opinions—which have been hard-earned over a tumultuous career of covering war and revolution, suffering and liberation—should be part of our national debate."—New York Times Bestselling author David Talbot, from his IntroductionChris Hedges is an intellectual bomb thrower. The kinds of insights he provides into the troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most important thinker ..." |
 | | America(1st Edition) The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-5267-2, ISBN: 1-5011-5267-X "Gebundenes BuchChris 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, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of prof ..." |
 | | Wages of Rebellion(Reprint) by Chris Hedges Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2016 by Bold Type Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-542-0, ISBN: 1-56858-542-X "Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class—investigates what social and psychological factors caus ..." |
 | | The World As It Is(1st Edition) Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2011 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-640-3, ISBN: 1-56858-640-X "Drawing on two decades of experience as a war correspondent and based on his numerous columns for Truthdig, Chris Hedges presents The World As It Is, a panorama of the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America's War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South Asia and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Underlying his reportage is a constant struggle with the nature of war and its im ..." |
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