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Tom EngelhardtFellowTomDispatch is the sideline that ate Tom Engelhardt's life. It began in November 2001 as his unnamed e-list of commentary and collected articles from the world press. In December 2002, it gained its name, became a project of The Nation Institute, and went online as "a regular antidote to the mainstream media." Before that, Engelhardt worked as an editor at Pacific News Service in the early 1970s, and, these last three decades, an editor in book publishing. For 15 years, he was Senior Editor at Pantheon Books where he edited and published award-winning works ranging from Art Spiegelman's Maus and John Dower's War Without Mercy to Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy. He is now Consulting Editor at Metropolitan Books, as well as co-founder and co-editor of Metropolitan's best-selling The American Empire Project. Many of the authors whose books he has edited and published over the years now write for TomDispatch.com. A collection of interviews with several of them have been published in the form of a book, called Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books, October 2006). He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture (University of Massachusetts, 1998), which has just been thoroughly updated in a newly issued edition that deals with victory culture's crash-and-burn sequel in Iraq, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing. His newest book is The World According to Tomdispatch: America and the Age of Empire (Verso). Engelhardt is married to Nancy J. Garrity, a therapist, and has two children, Maggie and Will.
Selected Articles: When Was the Last Time You Visited Iraq? "E" for Expeditionary Exit Polls: Your Enthusiasm and the Media's Looking Up: Normalizing Air War from Guernica to Arab Jabour Iraq as a Pentagon Construction Site: How the Bush Administration "Endures" Iraq, Bush and Writing Long: Interview with Tom Engelhardt Book Reviews:
G.I. Joe's Midlife Crisis Iran, Victory Culture: Wednesday Reading |
The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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