Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in problems is “an exceedingly…provocative reserve, specific to arouse controversy, but supplying a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how exactly bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a tradition of sadism and hate.

America, says Pulitzer Award­–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by a range of pathologies which have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, and a civil culture which has ceased about America: The Farewell Tour to function. The opioid crisis; the retreat into betting to handle economic problems; the pornification of culture; the rise of marvelous thinking; the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides will be the physical manifestations of the society that is being ravaged by commercial pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also encounter global upheaval due to catastrophic climate modification. All these ills presage a terrifying reconfiguration of the country and the planet.

Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In his “forceful and direct” (Web publishers Weekly) America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate and business coup d’état is certainly reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. “With a trademark blend of…sharply noticed details, Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream” (Kirkus Evaluations) and looks for to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.