Doug Henwood

Henwood was born to Harold and Victorine Henwood in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up in Westwood, New Jersey. As a youth, he was acquainted with Marxism, but he briefly self-identified with conservatism toward the end of high school. According to Henwood: "Sometime late in high school, I fell under the spell of Milton Friedman and Bill Buckley, and about the first thing I did when I got to college was join the Party of the Right (POR). I got tired of all the pompous rituals, and political sanity returned, bringing me back to the left from which I'd started."{{cite journal |last=Henwood |first=Doug |date=February 7, 2003 |title=Partying on the Right |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/partying-right/ |journal=The Nation |url-access=limited |access-date=2012-01-07}}

Henwood received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1975. After college, he worked as secretary to the chair of a small Wall Street brokerage firm headed by a former Bell Labs physicist who used quantitative analysis techniques in the mid-1970s, predating the later widespread adoption of similar methods on Wall Street.{{cite book |last=Henwood |first=Doug |url=https://archive.org/details/wallstreethowitw00henw |title=Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom |publisher=Verso |year=1997 |isbn=978-0860914952 |location=New York |url-access=registration}}

From 1976 to 1979, Henwood pursued a doctorate in English at the University of Virginia, but left before completing his dissertation. He then worked for two years as a copywriter and assistant to a medical publisher in New York.{{cite web |last = Henwood |first = Doug |title = Henwood bio |publisher = Left Business Observer |url = http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/DH_bio.html |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}

In September 1986, Henwood launched Left Business Observer (LBO) ({{ISSN|1042-0134}}).{{cite web |title = About LBO |publisher = Left Business Observer |year = 2001 |url = http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/LBO_about.html |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}

In 1992, Henwood worked with John Liscio on The Liscio Report on the Economy. In 2000, after Liscio's death, Henwood and Phillipa Dunne, a business partner, inherited The Liscio Report and continue to publish it.{{cite web |title = About Us |work = The Liscio Report on the Economy |publisher = TLR Publishing |year = 2007 |url = http://www.theliscioreport.com/about.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040103031833/http://theliscioreport.com/about.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2004-01-03 |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}

Henwood has written four books. His first, The State of the USA Atlas (1994), is a social atlas of the U.S. in the Pluto Press atlas series. This was followed in 1997 by Wall Street (Verso Books),{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=Justin |date=2012-08-03 |title=The Wall Street Book Everyone Should Read |url=https://hbr.org/2012/08/the-wall-street-book-everyone |access-date=2024-04-18 |work=Harvard Business Review |issn=0017-8012}} in which Henwood describes the workings of high finance, and then by After the New Economy (The New Press, 2003), an analysis of the 1990s boom and bust. Henwood's most recent book is My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency (Seven Stories Press, 2016).

His articles have appeared in The Nation, Harper's Magazine, Grand Street, The Village Voice, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Extra!. He is a contributing editor at The Nation.{{cite web |title = Doug Henwood |work = Authors |date = 2 April 2010 |publisher = The Nation |url = http://www.thenation.com/authors/doug-henwood |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}

Henwood began hosting the weekly radio show and podcast Behind the News in 1996. It is produced at KPFA and, formerly, WBAI. Henwood had been a regular contributor to Samori Marksman's show starting in 1989.{{cite web |title=Behind the News with Doug Henwood |url=http://www.kpfa.org/behindthenews |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120050421/http://kpfa.org/behindthenews |archive-date=2009-01-20 |access-date=2014-05-08 |publisher=KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley}} Notable guests include Noam Chomsky, James K. Galbraith, Christopher Hitchens, Lewis H. Lapham, George McGovern, Joseph Stiglitz, Gore Vidal, Yanis Varoufakis, and Slavoj Žižek.{{cite web |title=Behind the News: Doug Henwood's radio archives |url=http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html |access-date=2014-05-08 |publisher=Left Business Observer}}

On November 11, 2010, Henwood announced his retirement from Behind the News under WBAI.{{cite web |last = Henwood |first = Doug |title = My farewell to Thursdays at 5 |publisher = LBO News from Doug Henwood |date = Nov 11, 2010 |url = http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/11/my-farewell-to-thursdays-at-5 |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}

In 2017, Behind the News was picked up by Jacobin for its Jacobin Radio Podcast.{{Cite web |title=A Warm Welcome to Behind the News |url=https://jacobin.com/2017/03/behind-news-doug-henwood-jacobin-radio-podcast/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=jacobin.com |language=en-US}}

Henwood appeared in Lapham's dramatic documentary film The American Ruling Class.

Henwood is married to journalist Liza Featherstone; they live in Brooklyn with their son.{{cite web|url=https://lbo-news.com/2011/09/23/visiting-the-occupiers-of-wall-street/|first=Doug|last=Henwood|date=September 23, 2011|title=Visiting the occupiers of Wall Street|website=LBO News}} He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.{{Cite web |title=Open Letter to US Congressional Representatives marking our opposition to the US Innovation and Competition Act (USICA)/ COMPETES Act |url=https://international.dsausa.org/usica-letter/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=DSA International Committee |language=en}}

Henwood has written four books and is working on a fifth.{{cite web |title = Book info |publisher = Left Business Observer |url = http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Book_info.html |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}

• State of the U.S.A. Atlas (1994), {{ISBN|978-0-671-79696-9}}
• Wall Street (1997), {{ISBN|0-86091-670-7}}{{Cite web |title=Wall Street |url=http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=}}
• After the New Economy (2003), {{ISBN|1-56584-770-9}}
• My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency (2015), {{ISBN|978-1-682190-32-6}}{{Cite web |title=My Turn |url=https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3919-my-turn |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=Steven Stories Press}}

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• [https://twitter.com/DougHenwood Twitter account]
• [http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ Left Business Observer] (LBO)
• [http://lbo-news.com/ LBO News (blog)]
• [http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/ Free downloadable version of Wall Street]
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140425220332/http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood "Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview with Doug Henwood"] by Bhaskar Sunkara (The Activist, 21 February 2010)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20221201194136/https://brooklynrail.org/2009/07/express/ka-pow-bang-crash-down-goes-another-bubble "Ka-Pow! Bang! Crash! Down Goes Another Bubble!: Doug Henwood in Conversation with Christian Parenti"], The Brooklyn Rail, (July–August 2009)
• [http://www.politicalaffairs.net/economic-unorthodoxy-an-interview-with-doug-henwood/ "Economic Unorthodoxy: An Interview with Doug Henwood"] (24 April 2004, Political Affairs)
• [http://www.monthlyreview.org/0401henwd.htm "The 'New Economy' and the Speculative Bubble: An Interview with Doug Henwood"] (Monthly Review, April 2001)
• [http://www.salon.com/1998/12/22/21feature_2/ "The Marxist Wall Street couldn't ignore"], by Annalee Newitz, Salon.com, December 1998
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140426110149/http://www.theliscioreport.com/ The Liscio Report on the Economy] by Doug Henwood and Phillipa Dunne ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140624060414/http://tlrii.typepad.com/ blog])

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