Tom Englehardt of TomDispatch up on C-Span 2, 10-11:15am EST

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This sounds good!

The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire
Author: Tom Englehardt

About the Program:
Tom Engelhardt, editor of "The World According to TomDispatch," and Michael Schwartz, a contributor to the book, talk about America's war on terror and the invasion of Iraq. Mr. Engelhardt edits TomDispatch.com, an online forum that hosts such commentators as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, and Rebecca Solnit. They spoke at Book Culture in New York City.

About the Author:
Tom Engelhardt, senior editor at Pantheon from 1976 to 1990, is currently a consulting editor at Metropolitan Books and a fellow at the Nation Institute. His books include "The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation" and "Mission Unaccomplished: Timdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters." Over the years, Mr. Engelhardt has edited such authors as John Dower ("Embracing Defeat"), Art Spiegelman ("Maus"), Eduardo Galeano ("Upside Down World"), Ariel Dorfman ("The Empire's Old Clothes"), Robert Jay Lifton ("Superpower Syndrome"), Adam Hochschild ("King Leopold's Ghost"), Susan Faludi ("Stiffed"), Mike Davis ("Ecology of Fear"), Chalmers Johnson ("The Sorrows of Empire"), Studs Terkel ("Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"), and Jonathan Schell ("The Unconquerable World"). Mr. Engelhardt is editor of the weblog TomDispatch.com.

Info from
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9543&SectionName=&PlayMedia=No

Note: Scheduled to be repeated on Sunday, October 5, at 8:00 AM

Edited to include schedule note