A review by bgluckman
The Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges

2.0

Generally speaking, I agree with about 95% of what Hedges has to say. My problem isn't what he says, but how he says it. Sandwiched between a diatribe at the beginning and another at the end is about 175 pages argument so scattershot, it's akin to trying to fire a shotgun out of the window of a 747 in-flight. Jumping between topics and time periods at random and without much explanation behind the sudden shifts, the book barely makes a compelling case to its central argument: that so-called "liberals" say one thing and do another. Perhaps if it had followed either a chronological history of the evolution of liberalism from progressivism OR a topic-by-topic analysis of different areas where liberals have failed, it might have been successful. Instead, it tries to do both at once with limited results.

Overall, it's a disappointment, but perhaps, based on similar reads from other writers, not a surprise.