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Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters

Posted on November 1, 2009November 20, 2009

By Tom Engelhardt

A series of provocative and candid interviews with some of the iconoclastic thinkers – and activists – of our time. These long-form conversations with Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, Cindy Sheehan, Juan Cole, Mike Davis, Mark Danner, Barbara Ehrenreich, James Carroll, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Andrew Bacevich and Ann Wright, focus on the Bush administration’s imperial dreams and misguided actions. They suggest new ways to frame American global policy, while catching the white heat of our moment. This is a vivid, original chronicle of our troubling times.

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