Chris Hedges
Overview
Journalist
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, author
Author
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, and war correspondent
War correspondent
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, specializing in American
United States
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and Middle East
Middle East
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ern politics and societies. His most recent book is The World As It Is (2011).
Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a 2002 nonfiction book by journalist Chris Hedges. In the book, Hedges draws on classical literature and his experiences as a war correspondent to argue that war seduces entire societies, creating fictions that the public believes and relies on to continue...
(2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quotation from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
.
Quotations
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
What Every Person Should Know About War