Tom Engelhardt

Engelhardt graduated from Yale University and then completed a master's degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University.[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10182/biographical-summaries-of-notable-people?itemId=2971745&action=showRecord Thomas Engelhardt profile], myheritage.com; accessed August 19, 2016 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.{{cite journal |last1 =Dower |first1= John |first2= Patrick |last2= Lawrence |author1-link = John W. Dower |title =Japan and the United States: Reflections on War, Empire, Race, and Culture |journal = Japan Focus |volume =17 |issue = |pages= 2 |date =2019 |url = https://apjjf.org/-Patrick-Lawrence--John-W--Dower/5236/article.pdf |jstor = |issn = |doi = |accessdate = }} 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."{{Citation|first=Henry|last=Kreisler|title=Taking Back the World: Conversation with Tom Englehardt|publisher=Institute of International Studies|url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Engelhardt/engelhardt-con0.html|journal=Conversations with History|year=2004|format=Video}}

Engelhardt has worked in book and news publishing. He has edited hundreds of writers, including Mike Davis, Adam Hochschild, Studs Terkel, and Noam Chomsky.{{Cite web |last=Brookes |first=Julian |date=Dec 19, 2006 |title=Iraq, Bush and Writing Long: Interview with Tom Engelhardt |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/12/iraq-bush-and-writing-long-interview-tom-engelhardt/ |access-date=Aug 2, 2024 |website=Mother Jones}} 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.{{cite web |title=Tom Englehardt |url=http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/tom |website=TomDispatch |access-date=4 November 2020}} 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."

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". 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.{{cite web |title=About TomDispatch |url=http://www.tomdispatch.com/about/ |website=TomDispatch |date=23 September 2020 |access-date=4 November 2020}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Tom Engelhardt |url=https://www.salon.com/writer/tom_engelhardt |access-date=Aug 2, 2024 |website=Salon}}{{Cite web |title=Tom Engelhardt |url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/tom-engelhardt/ |access-date=Aug 2, 2024 |website=The Nation|date=2 April 2010 }}

• The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Basic Books, 1995)
• The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire (Verso, 2008)
• The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's (Haymarket, 2010)
• The United States of Fear (Haymarket, 2011)
• Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single Superpower World. (Haymarket, 2014){{cite web |last1=Dean |first1=Benjamin |title=Living in a 'Mania of Secrecy' |url=https://www.themantle.com/international-affairs/living-mania-secrecy |website=The Mantle |access-date=4 November 2020}}
• A Nation Unmade by War. (Haymarket Books, 2018)

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• [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s"] - video report by Democracy Now!
• [http://billmoyers.com/content/tom-engelhardt-on-supersized-politics-in-the-2012-election/ Tom Engelhardt is interviewed by Bill Moyers on the 2012 election]
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