Hedges, Chris

Chris Hedges
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Name	Hedges, Chris Gender: M
Birthname	Christopher Lynn Hedges
born on	18 September 1956 at 06:08 (= 06:08 AM )
Place	St.Johnsbury, Vermont, 44n25, 72w01
Timezone	EDT h4w (is daylight saving time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Craft
Astrology data	25°28' 05°53 Asc. 20°17'

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Chris Hedges

Biography

American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including 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 (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), the New York Times best seller, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), and his most recent Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015).

Hedges is currently a columnist for the progressive news and commentary website Truthdig, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City, and a contributing author for OpEdNews. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).

In 2002, Hedges was part of a group of eight reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey. He has described himself as a socialist. Chris Hedges is married to the Canadian actress Eunice Wong; they have two children. Hedges also has two children from a previous marriage.

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Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive

• Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3

• Vocation : Education : Teacher

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ political

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social

• Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction

• Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize