Chris Hedges to Speak about the War on Terror on January 31

01/17/06

Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges will deliver a presentation entitled “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,” based upon his book of the same name, at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 in Emerson A and B. War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning received the 2003 Overseas Press Club award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. The Los Angeles Times called it, "A powerful message to people contemplating the escalation of the 'war against terrorism.'"

Chris Hedges has been a foreign correspondent for more than 15 years. He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1990. Before that he reported for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio. He has seen war up close in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. Hedges was a member of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a master of divinity from Harvard University. A senior fellow at the Nation Institute, Hedges is the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, and also teaches in the Program for American Studies at Princeton.

Hedges is also the author of “What Every Person Should Know about War,” which offers a stark examination of the effects of war on combatants. His latest book, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America, views the decay of American society through the lens of each commandment, and challenges readers to review the disconnect between their own lived reality and their supposed value systems.

Copies of War is a Force and Losing Moses will be available for sale and author signing at the presentation. Hedges’s speech will be taped by WSKG-FM for later re-broadcast.

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