AUTHOR : CHRIS HEDGES

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I Don't Believe in Atheists	American Fascists	Collateral Damage

Chris Hedges: American Fascists; the Christian Right and the War on America

Christopher L. Hedges is a journalist and author, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and society.

Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. 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, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he spent fifteen years.

Hedges was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

REVIEWS:
"Chris Hedges may be the most credible figure yet to detect real-life fascism in the Red America of megachurches, gay-marriage bans and Left Behind books. American Facists is at its most daring when it enunciates...the perversities that are obvious to those of us not beholden to political exigencies."
-- New York Observer

"Throughout, Hedges documents, and reflects on, what he feels is the bigotry, the homophobia, the fanaticism -- and the deeply un-Christian ideology -- that pose clear and present danger in our previous and fragile republic."
-- O, the Oprah magazine

"This is a powerful book that looks inside some of the darkest movements on American soil."
--Time Out New York

BOOKS:
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)
Hedges' bestselling War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning draws on his experiences in various conflicts to describe the patterns and behavior of nations and individuals in wartime. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

American Fascists (2007)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America was published in January 2007. In this book, Hedges argues that the Christian fundamentalist movement emerging today in the United States resembles the early fascist movements in Italy and Germany at the beginning of the last century, and therefore constitutes a gathering threat to American democracy.

I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008)
I Don't Believe in Atheists, was published in March 2008. It critiques what it calls the radical mindset that rages against religion and faith.

Collateral Damage (2008)
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, with Laila Al-Arian.