The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire [Paperback] [2008] (Author) Tom Engelhardt, John Brown, Ira Chernus, Noam Chomsky, Judith Coburn

by Tom Engelhardt

From America's most influential political blog, a grand survey of the world since 9/11.Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored web platform for radical commentators from Noam Chomsky to Howard Zinn. Its powerful, no-holds-barred features draw a huge response from the public and resonate throughout the global media, acting as a touchpaper for debates which subsequently become headline news. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, including trenchant accounts of the two Bush administrations' catastrophic imperial adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq; Guantánamo, extraordinary rendition and its apologists; and Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold and the rise of Hugo Chávez.Introduced, arranged and with additional commentary throughout by the blog's founder Tom Engelhardt, The World According to Tomdispatch is the essential primer for anyone seeking illumination and guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9/11 world.Contributors John Brown Ira Chernos Noam Chomsky Michael Klare Juan Cole Mike Davis Mark Danner Greg Grandin Adam Hochschild Arlie Hochschild Dahr Jamail Chalmers Johnson Ann Jones Bill McKibben Rasha Salti Jonathan Schell Rebecca Solnit Nick Turse Behzad Yaghmaian

Genres: Politics

Unknown Binding

First published May 26, 2008

Reviews

[Bob Conner · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you read Engelhardt's weekly Tom Dispatch, you'll love The World According to Tom Dispatch. I love finding irony in the world, especially when it involves the nonsense of politics the "US way" and this is full of irony.

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