Profiles in Dissent is a collection of remarkably fresh and provocative interviews with some of the iconoclastic thinkers and activists of our time. These candid conversations — ranging from Howard Zinn to Chalmers Johnson, Cindy Sheehan to Mike Davis, Ann Wright, who retired from the State Department to protest the Iraqi invasion and became "a felon for peace," to Boston Globe columnist James Carroll — focus on the Bush administration's imperial dreams and ham-handed acts. They suggest new ways to frame American global policy, while catching something of the white heat of our moment, and offer a chronicle and original perspectives on our troubling times. Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com — who has been called "the I.F. Stone of the internet" — brings the immediacy of the moment to his introductions and his questions. His daily Tomgrams contain his parsing of contemporary news events, as well as his posting of original content from some of America's leading progressive thinkers. A quarter million readers a month visit his website (and hundreds of thousands more read his dispatches posted elsewhere on the Internet).
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An editor in publishing for the last 25 years, Engelhardt is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War era. He is at present consulting editor for Metropolitan Books, a fellow of The Nation Institute, and a teaching fellow at the journalism school of the University of California, Berkeley.
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MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED is a must-read for the stay-at-home news junkie who wants a clear and concise evaluation of the failed invasion of Iraq. While reading the book, I felt like I was in a group of well-educated friends enjoying a conversation about current events. Tom Engelhardt has assembled a broad and ecletic group of thinkers and activists, including participants in the September 2005 anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. Engelhardt asks perceptive questions--the sort you wish you had thought of to ask yourself.
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Tom Engelhardt provides transcripts from interviews he conducted with such notables as Juan Cole, Howard Zinn, and Barbara Ehrenreich. Two of my favorite authors were also interviewed: Chalmers Johnson and Andrew Bacevich.
You won't read these viewpoints in mainstream media.
Mr. Engelhardt also includes quotes he received while interviewing protesters in Washington D.C. Some of these sentiments were quite witty.
A topic that I found interesting was the difference in journalistic coverage in foreign countries. An example used was American journalism vs. the BBC. The difference being in who is sent and how well they communicate in the native language.
A quote from Juan Cole on page 89 sums up Bush's failures as president-
"Trying to run the world the way you run Texas is a big mistake"
Not having read any of Barbara Ehrenreich's books, I enjoyed her interview and its inclusion in this book. She is an experienced voice for the middle class.
This is a dated book but its value lies in its dissenting views of the Bush administration. Definitely worth a read!
You won't read these viewpoints in mainstream media.
Mr. Engelhardt also includes quotes he received while interviewing protesters in Washington D.C. Some of these sentiments were quite witty.
A topic that I found interesting was the difference in journalistic coverage in foreign countries. An example used was American journalism vs. the BBC. The difference being in who is sent and how well they communicate in the native language.
A quote from Juan Cole on page 89 sums up Bush's failures as president-
"Trying to run the world the way you run Texas is a big mistake"
Not having read any of Barbara Ehrenreich's books, I enjoyed her interview and its inclusion in this book. She is an experienced voice for the middle class.
This is a dated book but its value lies in its dissenting views of the Bush administration. Definitely worth a read!
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- Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream by BARBARA EHRENREICH on 9 pages
- Planet of Slums by Mike Davis on 8 pages
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich on 6 pages
- The Last Days of Publishing: A Novel by Tom Engelhardt in Front Matter, page 260, and Back Matter
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis on page 176, page 178, and page 179
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