The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

The World As It Is

Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

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Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges
2011 • 370 pages

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Explores the American empire at home and abroad, looking at everything from the ill effects of the War on Terror to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.

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