Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
New York, N.Y. Nation Books, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 302 pages. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters are: Days of Theft: Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Days of Siege, Camden, New Jersey; Days of Devastation, Welch, West Virginia; Days of Slavery, Immokalee, Florida; and Days of Revolt, Liberty Square, New York City. Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and television host. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle; Death of the Liberal Class; Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times bestseller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt; and his most recent, America: The Farewell Tour. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East (he is fluent in Arabic), and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) serving as the paper's Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. More