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Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, 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, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Tomdispatch.com is the sideline that ate his life. Before that he worked as an editor at Pacific News Service in the early 1970s, and, these last three decades, as an editor in book publishing. For 15 years, he was Senior Editor at Pantheon Books where he edited and published award-winning works ranging from Art Spiegelman's Maus and John Dower's War Without Mercy to Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy. He is now Consulting Editor at Metropolitan Books, as well as co-founder and co-editor of Metropolitan's The American Empire Project. Many of the authors whose books he has edited and published over the years now write for Tomdispatch.com. He is married to Nancy J. Garrity, a therapist, and has two children, Maggie and Will.
To find out more about Engelhardt and his background, check out:
Harry Kreisler's interview, "Taking Back the Word", on the Conversations with History website.
Julian Brookes' interview, "Iraq, Bush, and Writing Long", on the Mother Jones website.
Nick Turse's two-part interview on the Tomdispatch website, "Reading the Imperial Press Front to Back" (part 1) and "On Not Packing Your Bag and Heading Home When Things Go Wrong" (part 2).
If you've just stumbled into Tomdispatch, wondering whether Tom Engelhardt is the "Tommy Engelhardt" you once knew, and you're thinking of a boy 11 years old or younger, growing up in New York City, then you probably have the right guy.

Best of TomDispatch: Engelhardt, The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History

By Tom Engelhardt On October 8, 2020On May 15, 2021

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By Tom Engelhardt On October 4, 2020On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, A Vote for the Apocalypse

By Tom Engelhardt On September 20, 2020On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, The Great, Great Fall

By Tom Engelhardt On September 8, 2020On May 15, 2021

In the Shadow of War

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By Tom Engelhardt On August 16, 2020On August 16, 2020

Engelhardt, The Unexpected Past, the Unknown Future

By Tom Engelhardt On August 9, 2020On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, Donald J. Trump, or Osama bin Laden’s Revenge

By Tom Engelhardt On July 16, 2020On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, The Invasion of America

By Tom Engelhardt On June 18, 2020On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, How the Roof Fell In

By Tom Engelhardt On May 31, 2020On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, The Assassin-in-Chief Comes Home

By Tom Engelhardt On April 30, 2020On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, Might the Coronavirus Be a Peacemaker?

By Tom Engelhardt On April 14, 2020On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, “The Skies Are Emptying Out”

By Tom Engelhardt On March 24, 2020On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, The Trump Conundrum

By Tom Engelhardt On March 3, 2020On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, War Addicts, Inc.

By Tom Engelhardt On February 13, 2020On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, Are We All Australians Yet?

By Tom Engelhardt On January 26, 2020On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, Victory at Last!

By Tom Engelhardt On January 9, 2020On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, On Hijacking History

By Tom Engelhardt On December 22, 2019On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, Which Hunt? Who Knows Which Witch?

By Tom Engelhardt On November 26, 2019On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, Donald in Blunderland

By Tom Engelhardt On November 3, 2019On December 14, 2020

Engelhardt, The Ultimate Brexiteer

By Tom Engelhardt On October 13, 2019On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, “Make America Greta Again”

By Tom Engelhardt On September 29, 2019On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, Pyromaniacs, Inc.

By Tom Engelhardt On September 17, 2019On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, Welcome to His World

By Tom Engelhardt On September 5, 2019On May 15, 2021

Engelhardt, Is Donald Trump Big Brother?

By Tom Engelhardt On August 18, 2019On December 14, 2020

Ambush at Kamikaze Pass

By Tom Engelhardt On August 11, 2019On August 11, 2019

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