Chris Hedges

discusses

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

This event includes a book signing

Date

Jul
7
Monday
July 7, 2014
7:00 PM

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author CHRIS HEDGES for a discussion of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, co-authored by Joe Sacco.

In the tradition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Hedges and Sacco travel to the depressed pockets of the United States to report on recession-era America. What they find in Camden, New Jersey, the devastated coalmines of West Virginia, on the Lakota reservation in South Dakota, and in undocumented farmworker colonies in California is a thriving neofeudalism. With extraordinary on-the-ground reportage and illustration, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt provides a terrifying glimpse of a future for America and the nations that follow her lead—a future that will be avoided with nothing short of revolution. 

"Sacco's sections are uniformly brilliant. The tone is controlled, the writing smart, the narration neutral; we are allowed to draw our own conclusions.... An important book.... Hedges is a serious writer and thinker, and as in his seminal work, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he is brilliant at depicting human life at the extremes of existence—from war to grinding poverty—and explaining the effects on the human psyche." —The New York Times Book Review 

Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Truthdig columnist, is a Pulitzer Prizewinning author and journalist. His books include such bestsellers as Empire of IllusionDeath of the Liberal Class, and the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
 

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