Chris Hedges is the New York Times bestselling author of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is a former New York Times foreign correspondent who was part of a team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of the War on Terror. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his family.

David Talbot is the New York Times bestselling author of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil?s Chessboard. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Salon and has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Time. He lives in San Francisco, California.

A powerful, necessary conversation with one of the sharpest and boldest political minds in America today.