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DESCRIPTION:Chris Hedges will discuss his major new book:    \n\n"Empire of Illusion: 
 The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle"\n\nTickets: 
 www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71755\nphone order: 
 800-838.3006\nIndependent Bookstores: Pegasus Solano, Pegasus Shattuck, 
 Pendragon, Moe's, Diesel, Walden Pond, Modern Times\n$10 advance, $12 door, 
 benefits KPFA Radio\nInformation: www.kpfa.org/events or 510.848.6767x609\n 
  \nChris Hedges writes a weekly column for www.Truthdig.org that is 
 published every Monday. He is currently a senior fellow at The Nation 
 Institute 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, and has reported from more than 50 countries, while working 
 for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas 
 Morning News and The New York Times, where he was part of the team that won 
 the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He 
 currently writes for Harper's, New York Review of Books, Granta, Mother 
 Jones, and Foreign Affairs. The author of the best selling "War Is a Force 
 That Gives Us Meaning," -  a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 
 Award for Nonfiction - Hedges received the 2002 Amnesty International 
 Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He is the author of "American 
 Fascists," a book on the Christian right, and "I Don't Believe in 
 Atheists".  In 2007 he famously debated Christopher Hitchens in Berkeley on 
 "Is God Great?" - massively viewed on YouTube. \nMedia contact: 
 ken@kpfa.org      510.967-4495\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/23/18603657.php
SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion:End of Literacy,Triumph of Spectacle
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar St\nBerkeley, CA 
 94709\n510-848-3227\nhttp://www.hillsideclub.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/23/18603657.php
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