The World According to TomDispatch

America in the New Age of Empire

By Tom Engelhardt

TomDispatch's powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the global online media. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to sample some of the finest political analysis of our age, focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. offshore Bermuda Triangle of injustice from Guantamano to the CIA "black sites," not to speak of extraordinary rendition, the response to Hurricane Katrina, global warming, Iraq's black gold and the energy crisis, and, above all, the Bush administration's misbegotten "smash of civilizations." Introduced and edited by TomDispatch's creator Tom Engelhardt, The World According to TomDispatch is an essential primer for anyone seeking guidance along the highways and byways of our post 9/11 world.

The book includes already classic pieces by a dazzling cast of authors, including Chalmers Johnson, Juan Cole, Rebecca Solnit, Mark Danner, Ruth Rosen, Jonathan Schell, Greg Grandin, Noam Chomsky, Karen J. Greenberg, Mike Davis, Michael Klare, Adam Hochschild, Dahr Jamail, Arlie Hochschild, Bill McKibben, Judith Coburn, John Brown, Dilip Hiro, Rasha Salti, Michael Schwartz, Behzad Yaghmaian, Ann Jones, Chad Heeter, Nick Turse, Ira Chernus, Steve Fraser, David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz, and Tom Engelhardt.

Praise for The World According to TomDispatch:

"These are the traits of a TomDispatch essay: unapologetically intellectual, relentlessly original, a little bit dangerous. For many of us, these are the key pieces of analysis that made sense of our post-9/11 world. How odd that many of them have never actually been printed. Until now."

Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

"TomDispatch is indispensable and irreplaceable, a bright light illuminating a dark time in American history. 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

"At a time when the fourth estate so often seems to be in its death throes, it's our great good fortune to have TomDispatch, where vital and independent commentary abounds and the provocative ideas of genuine public intellectuals are given full rein."

Susan Faludi, author of The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

"TomDispatch is one of the wonders of the electronic age. A touch of the finger and you get the juiciest, meatiest information and analysis, so rich a feast of intelligence and insight I often felt short of breath. Now, Tom Engelhardt has assembled some of the best of his dispatches, from some of the boldest and most astute commentators in the country. So take a deep breath and read."

Howard Zinn, author of People's History of the United States

"TomDispatch is essential reading. It is a one-stop-shop where you can find the most provocative thinkers writing the most eloquent and hard hitting articles about the most pressing issues of the day. Read, get mad, and take action."

Amy Goodman (host, Democracy Now!) and David Goodman, co-authors, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times

Hope in the Dark

Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

By Rebecca Solnit

"Seemingly lost in the woods of deceit and banality, bereft of hope, we are confronted by Rebecca Solnit and her astonishing flashlight. In a jewel of a book that is poetic in substance as well as style, she reveals where we were, where we are and the step-by-step advances that have been made in human rights, as we stubbornly stumble out of the darkness." --Studs Terkel

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