The World According to TomDispatch

Tom Engelhardt, editor of The World According to TomDispatch (Verso Books), and Michael Schwartz, a contributor to the book, recounted stori… read more

Tom Engelhardt, editor of The World According to TomDispatch (Verso Books), and Michael Schwartz, a contributor to the book, recounted stories from their book, which is about America’s war on terror and the invasion of Iraq. TomDispatch.com is an online forum that hosts such commentators as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, and Rebecca Solnit. Professor Engelhardt and Dr. Schwartz responded to questions from the audience.

Tom Engelhardt, senior editor at Pantheon from 1976 to 1990, is currently a consulting editor at Metropolitan Books and a fellow at the Nation Institute. His books include The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation and Mission Unaccomplished: Timdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters. Over the years, Mr. Engelhardt has edited such authors as John Dower (Embracing Defeat), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Eduardo Galeano (Upside Down World), Ariel Dorfman (The Empire’s Old Clothes), Robert close

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Aug 17, 2008 | 4:28am EDT | C-SPAN 2
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  • Oct 05, 2008 | 8:00am EDT | C-SPAN 2
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