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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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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Nation Books; 1 edition (September 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560259388
ISBN-13: 978-1560259381
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,018,647 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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United States, Cold War, George Bush, Middle East, New York, Cindy Sheehan, State Department, White House, Los Angeles, Soviet Union, Vietnam War, World War, New Orleans, Democratic Party, Air Force, Colin Powell, Gulf War, San Diego, Roman Empire, Department of Defense, Latin America, Planet of Slums, Abu Ghraib, Juan Cole, Secretary of Defense

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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: Undercover in Low-wage America 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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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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