Books written by Chris Hedges
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The Gallows: An Anthology of Dark Fiction
From GP comes a collection of 11 tales showcasing the narrative talents of the Gallows authors. THE GALLOWS anthology is the perfect book for readers looking to sample what our talented storytellers have to offer.
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
The author navigates America's divided culture--where a minority embraces film, theater, and books, while the majority cling to a world of fantasy and false certainty--to expose what he sees as an age of terrifying decline and heightened ...
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Der nächste große Krieg: Hintergründe und Analysen zur medial-politischen Hetze gegen Russland
In den Filmaufnahmen der Weißhelme in einer Notaufnahme in Duma während des angeblichen Giftgasangriffs zu sehende Personen sagten später in der Zentrale der OPCW im niederländischen Den Haag aus, dass das ganze Theater nur eine ...
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
This idolatry of efficiency, rationalism, capitalist expansion, and empire was later summed up by the sociologist Max Weber as the “disenchantment of the world”—a disturbing characteristic, Weber argued, of Western culture.
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America: The Farewell Tour
Bill Blum, “The Right-Wing Legacy of Justice Lewis Powell, and What It Means for the Supreme Court Today,” Truthdig, https://www.truthdig .com/articles/the-right-wing-legacy-of-justice-lewis-powell-and-what-it ...
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The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
When Allegra asked for the address of the prison, to mail her husband pictures of their child, she was told there was no address. “My husband has been banned from Jerusalem for twenty years, so we brought Jerusalem to us,” she says.
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Stray Dogs: Writing from the Other America
These are highway songs and gutter poems, whiskey-soaked and sun scorched stories for the forgotten and lost. This is the other side of the electric American night.
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The Middle East Peace Process
The Middle East Peace Process
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War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
Includes information on abortion, Antichrist, apocalyptic violence, Bible, religious broadcasting media, George W. Bush, Christian Right, Christians, conversion process, converts, creationism, democracy, Democratic Party, dominionism, ...
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The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
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 ...
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What Every Person Should Know About War
Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format.
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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
The first account of the war in Iraq, as told by returned veterans, that gives a disturbing insight into the indiscriminate killing that is carried out on unarmed and innocent Iraqis.
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Explores the political ambitions of the Christian right, discussing how their agenda gained momentum through alternative networks, schools, and publishers, and warns that another national crisis may enable the Christian right to seize ...
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey ...
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Unspeakable: Talks with David Talbot about the Most Forbidden Topics in America
If we are to combat the intellectual and moral decay that have taken hold of American life, we must listen to the urgent messages raised in this book.
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels.
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War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.
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Death of the Liberal Class
Hedges argues that the death of the liberal class created a profound vacuum at the heart of American political life. And now speculators, war profiteers, and demagogues -- from militias to the Tea Party -- are filling the void.