MixedThe Winnipeg Free PressIn America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges is trying to rally the troops to salvation. But his heart doesn’t seem in it. Rather, the mood of his writing conveys a hopelessness, an inevitability, a remorse, a despair much like the early pages of Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant post-apocalyptic The Road ... In summary, the prophetic America: The Farewell Tour reads like an obituary: \'The United States of America, born in 1776, dies after a long illness.\' If Hedges is right, a country once the pride of liberty is about to become the world’s largest gravesite. And where does that leave us?
