Unspeakable Chris Hedges on the most forbidden topics in America

Chris Hedges

Book - 2016

"Hedges offers his unvarnished views on topics rarely aired by the corporate media, including the hopeless corruption of our political system and the urgent need for a third-party rebellion; the difficulty of challenging the prevailing story lines of the Washington elite and the Israeli government; the disturbing parallels between current US conditions and the collapse of Balkans society into fascist violence during the 1990s; the criminalization of poverty; how many of the best and brightest in black America are siphoned from school to prison; nd how the pornography industry reflects the most dehumanizing qualities of global capitalism"--

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Genres
Interviews
Published
New York, NY : Hot Books [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Chris Hedges (author)
Other Authors
David Talbot, 1951- (author)
Item Description
"Hot Books conversations"--Dust jacket.
Physical Description
xi, 149 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781510712737
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Launching the Hot Books imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Salon founder Talbot undertakes an extensive interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedges (Wages of Rebellion), who writes about politics with a principled fury and an eye to pointing out injustice, even at the cost of his own career as an acclaimed war correspondent. The book is a long-running commentary on the many issues Hedges confronts in his writing, including war, Occupy Wall Street, and the New York Times's relationship to organs of state power. Hedges is trenchant on liberal activists-"They liked the poor, but they didn't like the smell of the poor"-and scathing about class in modern America: "The rich have disdain for anyone who does not belong to their inner circle." It's bracing to hear Hedges's unfiltered dissent and disdain, from his dismissal of George W. Bush as "a man of limited intelligence and dubious morals" to his discussion of how the seductions of celebrity undermined Christopher Hitchens's writing. But the format, and Hedges's occasionally righteous tone, can wear thin, even for an audience that forms the choir to which interviewer and subject preach. Hedges's observation that the today's ruling elites are out of touch with the country they govern is being borne out in the 2016 election cycle, showing that even the most stridently expressed views aren't necessarily wrong. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.