{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-tomdispatch-isbn-9781844672578","title":"The World According to Tomdispatch","description":"Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the global online media. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, from Afghanistan and Iraq through Guantánamo and extraordinary rendition, Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold, and the misbegotten ‘clash of civilizations.’ Introduced and edited by Tomdispatch’s creator Tom Engelhardt, \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Tomdispatch\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential primer for anyone seeking guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9\/11 world.“Tomdispatch is one of the wonders of the electronic age. A touch of the finger and you get the juciest, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unapologetically intellectual, relentlessly original, for many of us these essays 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 reign.”—Susan Faludi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 and David Gooodman\u003cb\u003eTom Engelhardt \u003c\/b\u003ecreated 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, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Victory Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoam Chomsky\u003c\/b\u003e is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Power and the New Mandarins\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Manufacturing Consent \u003c\/i\u003e(with Ed Herman),\u003ci\u003e Deterring Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Year 501\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e World Orders Old and New\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Powers and Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Profit over People\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The New Military Humanism \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rogue States\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Danner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Massacre of El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003ePlanet of Slums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcology of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLate Victorian Holocausts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMagical Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Grandin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire’s Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Colonial Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWho is Rigoberta Menchú?\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e, and the 2009 National Book Awards finalist \u003ci\u003eFordlandia\u003c\/i\u003e. A professor of history at New York University and a Guggenheim fellow, Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChalmers Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e was President of the Japan Policy Research Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He was the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eBlowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Japan: Who Governs?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet,\u003c\/i\u003e among other titles; he is the founder of 350.org, which in 2010 organized what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Schell\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at Wesleyan University and the New School University. A Fellow at the Nation Institute and co-founder of a recently formed citizen’s initiative to negotiate the abolition of nuclear weapons, he is the author of nine books including \u003ci\u003eFate of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in twenty countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e is author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eWanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, the NBCC award-winning \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built In Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. A contributing editor to Harper’s, she writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Turse\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch.com. 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