Chris Hedges

Christopher Lynn Chris Hedges is an American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister. Hedges is also known as the bestselling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionEmpire of Illusion The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle , Death of the Liberal Class , the New York Times best seller, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt , and his most recent Wages of Rebellion The Moral Imperative of Revolt .

Christopher Lynn Hedges was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the son of Thelma Louise and the Rev. Thomas Havard Hedges, a Presbyterian minister. He grew up in rural Schoharie County, New York, and graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School, a private boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1975. He founded an underground newspaper at the school that was banned by the administration and led to him being put on probation.

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