- Popular culture, Mass media, Multi-Cultural, Nonfiction
Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- Author
- Chris Hedges
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada, Tantor Audio, Bold Type Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781568584379
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