Tom Engelhardt

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Thomas M. Engelhardt (born 1944) is an American writer and editor. He is the creator of Type Media Center's tomdispatch.com, an online blog. [1] He is also the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of the 1998 book, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. [2]

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In 1991, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. [3]

Career

Engelhardt graduated from Yale University and then completed a master's degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. [4] As an undergraduate he was attracted to the study of Chinese history by Mary C. Wright, and was a research assistant for Jonathan Spence.

At Harvard he was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and became involved in a draft resistance movement in opposition to the American war in Vietnam. [5] As a result of these activities, he became a printer and moved to Berkeley, California. There he began to write about the resistance to the war, and, as he later put it, "the next thing I knew I was a journalist and an editor." [6]

Engelhardt has worked in book and news publishing. He has edited hundreds of writers, including Mike Davis, Adam Hochschild, Studs Terkel, and Noam Chomsky. [7] He was a senior editor at Pantheon Books where he edited such books as Maus by Art Spiegelman, and has been a consulting editor at Metropolitan Books. He also taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley as a teaching fellow. [8] He once described the editing process as "more like a craft, that's right, because there isn't as much of a preset pattern for it. There's a word I often think about because it's such a negative in our society, which is 'used.' You say a 'used' car—something previously owned and not particularly good, or 'I've been used, I've been exploited.' But the most beautiful feeling about editing for an editor is that feeling of being used and subsumed." [6]

Engelhardt created TomDispatch in November 2001; in 2002, The Nation Institute published it on the Institute's website, calling it "a regular antidote to the mainstream media". [7] He has described the site as the "sideline that ate his life". Contributors have included Rebecca Solnit, Bill McKibben, Jonathan Schell, Fatima Bhutto, Nick Turse, Pepe Escobar, Noam Chomsky, and Andrew Bacevich. [9] He has written several books including The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's, and writes for Salon and The Nation . [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Tom Engelhardt". Type Media Center. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  2. ↑ Engelhardt, Tom (September 15, 2005). "The reconstruction of New Iraq". Asia Times. Archived from the original on December 13, 2005. Retrieved November 11, 2015.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ↑ "Thomas M. Engelhardt". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Thomas Engelhardt profile, myheritage.com; accessed August 19, 2016
  5. ↑ Dower, John; Lawrence, Patrick (2019). "Japan and the United States: Reflections on War, Empire, Race, and Culture" (PDF). Japan Focus. 17: 2.
  6. 1 2 Kreisler, Henry (2004), "Taking Back the World: Conversation with Tom Englehardt" (Video), Conversations with History, Institute of International Studies
  7. 1 2 Brookes, Julian (Dec 19, 2006). "Iraq, Bush and Writing Long: Interview with Tom Engelhardt". Mother Jones . Retrieved Aug 2, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Tom Englehardt". TomDispatch. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "About TomDispatch". TomDispatch. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "Tom Engelhardt". Salon . Retrieved Aug 2, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Tom Engelhardt". The Nation . Retrieved Aug 2, 2024.
  12. ↑ Dean, Benjamin. "Living in a 'Mania of Secrecy'". The Mantle. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
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