Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture. Traveling to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to write about the pornographic film industry, and to academic conferences held by positive psychologists who claim to be able to engineer happiness, Hedges chronicles our flight from an ever-worsening reality. The cultural embrace o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-4955-3
- EAN: 9780786749553
- Produktnummer: 22913239
- Verlag: PublicAffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 617 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Sonstiges: Ab 13 - 99 J.
Über den Autor
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He spent nearly two decades as a correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, with fifteen years at the New York Times. He is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Empire of Illusion; Death of the Liberal Class; War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning; and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-wrote with Joe Sacco. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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