The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire (Paperback)

~ Tom Engelhardt (Editor)

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Engelhardt has assembled some of the best of his dispatches, from some of the boldest and most astute commentators in the country. -- Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

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

These are the traits of a Tomdispatch essay: unapologetically intellectual, relentlessly original, a little bit dangerous. -- Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

Tomdispatch is essential reading....Read, get mad, and take action. -- Amy Goodman and David Goodman, authors of Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times

Vital and independent commentary abounds and the provocative ideas of genuine public intellectuals are given full rein. -- Susan Faludi, author of The Terror Dream

Product Description

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; Guantánamo, extraordinary rendition and its apologists; and Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold and the rise of Hugo Chávez.

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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Verso (May 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844672573
• ISBN-13: 978-1844672578
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #553,728 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Essential Collection of Post 9/11 Journalism--What You Didn't Read in the MSM, June 29, 2008

By	Andrew R. Kroll (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Since TomDispatch's beginnings as an e-mail newsletter TomDispatch.com editor and creator Tom Engelhardt sent to a few select friends in which he culled news stories and commentaries from throughout the world--stories that curiously weren't appearing in the American mainstream media--TomDispatch.com has acted as the definitive source of reporting and commentary on our post-9/11 world and the spread of American imperialism throughout the world.

TomDispatch published the stories that readers weren't finding in their daily newspapers and monthly magazines--stories that reported and commented on the possibility of spending $1 billion on a WTC memorial, on the anonymity of Iraqi victims as a result of the U.S.'s invasion and subsequent occupancy, on the rhetoric used by President Bush throughout the Iraq war, and on the largely-underreported refugee crisis in Iraq, to name just a few.

Although TomDispatch makes it home on the Internet, the site's essays--as seen in this collection--are not clipped news stories or blog posts; rather, they're finely edited, thorough, extensive and wonderfully written and reported pieces of journalism. And the names of those who've contributed to the site and who also appear in this book are quite notable as well. The likes of Noam Chomsky, Bill McKibben, Rebecca Solnit and Mark Danner, among many, many others, have penned essays for TomDispatch that have been collected here.

Like finally flipping on the lights in a dark room, reading this book opens one's eyes to a whole world of imperialism and corporatism and to a class of plutocrats and crooks that never made it into the pages of The New York Times or Newsweek. When looking to make sense of this post-9/11 world, this is book is the place to start.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-Opening, Thought Provoking and Heartening, June 27, 2008

By	Paige - See all my reviews

This book is a must for all shelves! Where else could you in one book read the outstanding thinking, insight and prose from such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Dahr Jamail, Nick Turse, Mike Davis and Michael Klare among so many others, including Tom Engelhardt himself?!

This book is eye-opening and thought provoking. It is also very heartening to read the type of journalism that is so lacking in our mainstream media today. At least there are some writers out there willing to look into the issues and provide perspective.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The nearest thing to a free press we have is TomDispatch, July 23, 2008

By	D. Camp "Independant thinker" (Turlock, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sick of the mind-numbing propaganda and endless trivial brainwashing of TV and the rest of the Corporatist media? Do you want intelligent analysis based on fact and logic free from neo-con or any other sick corrupt ideology? TomDispatch is a good start. Read this book, and then subscribe to TomDispatch's emailed essays. Here's a link: http://www.tomdispatch.com/