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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: "E" for Expeditionary Exit Polls: Your Enthusiasm and the Media's Looking Up: Normalizing Air War from Guernica to Arab Jabour CSI: Iraq The Bush Legacy: Journey to the Dark Side 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 |
Working In The ShadowsA Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour. Check out Thompson's interview on PBS' Tavis Smiley here. More El Monstruo: Book TourFebruary 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
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