EAN: 9781501152689

AMERICA THE FAREWELL TOUR - CHRIS HEDGES KARTON...

Chris Hedges's profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is an
exceedingly...provocative book  certain to arouse controversy  but offering a point of view
that needs to be heard (Booklist)  about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a
culture of sadism and hate. America  says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges  is
convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness  a bitter
despair  and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis  the retreat into
gambling to cope with economic distress  the pornification of culture  the rise of magical
thinking  the celebration of sadism  hate  and plagues of suicides are the physical
manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy.
As our society unravels  we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change.
All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump
rode this disenchantment to power. In his forceful and direct (Publishers Weekly) America: The
Farewell Tour  Hedges argues that neither political party  now captured by corporate power 
addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d'état is reversed these diseases will
grow and ravage the country. With sharply observed detail  Hedges writes a requiem for the
American dream (Kirkus Reviews) and seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is
still time.

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