WRITER

Chris Hedges

1956 - Today

Chris Hedges

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister. In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and Dallas Morning News. Hedges reported for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005, and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Hedges has received more than 2,099,175 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Chris Hedges is the 6,352nd most popular writer (down from 6,220th in 2019), the 11,563rd most popular biography from United States (up from 13,760th in 2019) and the 847th most popular American Writer.

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2.1M
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Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
19
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1.98
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Notable Works

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

War (Philosophy), Modern Military history, War and society

"Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges shows how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls "the myth of war" - the idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious. And yet if human history is any guide, nations and imperiums have stumbled and even fallen when they believed the myths peddled about war and about themselves. The reality of war, which Hedges knows first-hand, is about the destruction of culture, the perversion of human desire, and the embrace, ultimately, of death over life."--BOOK JACKET.

2002

America

Drug abuse, Working class, Unemployment

2018

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Social classes, united states, Poor, united states, Crime, united states

"In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco bring us a searing on-the-ground report on the crisis gripping underclass America and crime-ridden poverty enclaves--in prisons, urban slums, and rural communities--metastasizing around the nation"--

2012

Death of the liberal class

Political culture, Liberalism, Politics and government

2010

Empire of illusion

Popular culture, Mass media, Multi-Cultural

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this "other society," serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

2009

American Fascists

Religious aspects of Conservatism, Christianity, Fascism

2006