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b'In his latest book,\\xa0America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges shows how the effects of America\\u2019s decline and decay affects its citizenry. As America sinks further into poverty and despotism, and as corporations and the military-industrial-media complex pirate the remaining assets of a nation that has lost its industry save weapons manufacturing, human beings suffer from gambling addiction, hatred, and violence in the streets. Hedges announces a spiritual call to resist.\\nChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize\\u2013winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\\xa0The New York Times\\xa0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for\\xa0The Dallas Morning News,\\xa0The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine\\xa0Truthdig\\xa0out of Los Angeles and is host of the Emmy Award\\xad\\u2013winning RT America show\\xa0On Contact.\\xa0Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of the bestsellers\\xa0American Fascists,\\xa0Days of Destruction\\xad,\\xa0Days of Revolt, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for\\xa0War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches college credit courses in the New Jersey prison system.'