War reporting and a strongly anti-war, anti-corporate perspective shape Chris Hedges’s political and social criticism. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning examines the emotional and mythic appeal of war alongside its destruction, using reporting, literature and personal experience from conflict zones. Empire of Illusion turns to celebrity culture, education, pornography and politics as symptoms of a society increasingly organised around spectacle. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, created with cartoonist Joe Sacco, visits US communities damaged by deindustrialisation, extraction and poverty. Hedges’s prose is urgent, moral and often polemical, closer to essayistic indictment than detached policy analysis. The most useful shelf connections are anti-war nonfiction, political criticism, journalism and critiques of corporate power for readers comfortable with strongly argued current-affairs writing. Read more Less
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