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The World According to Tomdispatch: America and the Age of Empire (Paperback)
Edited by Tom Engelhardt
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You can watch Tom discuss the book and a key recent topic here here .
Here is a great anthology from Verso Books, published in June of 2008.
Description from the publisher:
From America's most influential political blog, a grand survey of the world since 9/11.
Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored web platform for radical commentators from Noam Chomsky to Howard Zinn. Its powerful, no-holds-barred features draw a huge response from the public and resonate throughout the global media, acting as a touchpaper for debates which subsequently become headline news. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, including trenchant accounts of the two Bush administrations' catastrophic imperial adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq; Guantαnamo, extraordinary rendition and its apologists; and Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold and the rise of Hugo Chαvez.
Introduced, arranged and with additional commentary throughout by the blog's founder Tom Engelhardt, The World According to Tomdispatch is the essential primer for anyone seeking illumination and guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9/11 world.
Contributors include:
John Brown
Ira Chernos
Noam Chomsky
Michael Klare
Juan Cole
Mike Davis
Mark Danner
Greg Grandin
Adam Hochschild
Arlie Hochschild
Dahr Jamail
Chalmers Johnson
Ann Jones
Bill McKibben
Rasha Salti
Jonathan Schell
Rebecca Solnit
Nick Turse
Behzad Yaghmaian
About the Author:
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website Tomdispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in New York City.
Praise for The World According to TomDispatch:
"These are the traits of a TomDispatch essay: unapologetically intellectual, relentlessly original, a little bit dangerous. For many of us, these are the key pieces of analysis that made sense of our post-9/11 world. How odd that many of them have never actually been printed. Until now."
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
"TomDispatch is indispensable and irreplaceable, a bright light illuminating a dark time in American history. The publication of this splendid collection of dispatches is cause for celebration."
Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
"At a time when the fourth estate so often seems to be in its death throes, it's our great good fortune to have TomDispatch, where vital and independent commentary abounds and the provocative ideas of genuine public intellectuals are given full rein."
Susan Faludi, author of The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
"TomDispatch is one of the wonders of the electronic age. A touch of the finger and you get the juiciest, meatiest information and analysis, so rich a feast of intelligence and insight I often felt short of breath. Now, Tom Engelhardt has assembled some of the best of his dispatches, from some of the boldest and most astute commentators in the country. So take a deep breath and read."
Howard Zinn, author of People's History of the United States
"TomDispatch is essential reading. It is a one-stop-shop where you can find the most provocative thinkers writing the most eloquent and hard hitting articles about the most pressing issues of the day. Read, get mad, and take action."
Amy Goodman (host, Democracy Now!) and David Goodman, co-authors, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
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