War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
(Author)
Description
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, meaning, a reason for living. Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.
Product Details
Price
$15.99
$14.87
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Publish Date
June 15, 2007
Dimensions
0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 0.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
MP3 CD
EAN/UPC
9798200142224
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.
Reviews
"A brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book...It will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists, nihilists, politicians, and professional soldiers equally."
-- "New York Times Book Review""The best kind of war journalism: it is bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical. It sends out a powerful message to people contemplating the escalation of the 'war against terrorism.'"
-- "Los Angeles Times""As the 'war on terror' continues on its...potentially catastrophic course, America would do well to heed Hedges'...warning."
-- "Salon.com"Bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical.... A powerful message to people contemplating the escalation of the 'war against terrorism.'-- "Los Angeles Times"