Special Visit by International Author and Lecturer
Chris Hedges
7PM Saturday April 9th
WV State University - Performing Arts Auditorium
Hedges will discuss his latest book:
"Death of the Liberal Class"
and views on War, Peace, Politics and Poverty in America
Sponsored by: Seneca 2; ACLU-WV; WV Patriots for Peace;
WV Citizen Action Education Fund; and WVSU Political Science Dept.
Book signings with the author at both Taylor Books (4:15) and at evening event!
About the Speaker: Chris Hedges, published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans reporting from more than 50 countries. He worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, as a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Hedges was part of the team at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges as the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009, and granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his Truthdig essay "One Day We'll All Be Terrorists."
Hedges is the author of nine books, including the bestsellers "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle"; "I Don't Believe in Atheists" and "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America". His book "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In addition to Truthdig, he has written articles for Harper's Magazine, The New Statesman, The New York Review of Books, Adbusters, Granta, Foreign Affairs and others.
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