By Tom Engelhardt The Widening Lens Jonathan Schell and the Fate of the Earth “Up to a few months ago, Ben Suc was a prosperous village of some thirty-five hundred people.” That is the initial line of The Village of Ben Suc, his first book, a copy of which I recently reread on a plane […]
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Tom Engelhardt runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of The Nation Institute. His books include The End of Victory Culrure - a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War - the novel The Last Days of Publishing, and Mission Unaccomplished, a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews. One of the top US book editors, he is Consulting Editor at Metropolitan Books as well as co-founder and co-editor of Metropolitan's The American Empire Project. Many of the authors whose books he has edited and published over the years now write for Tomdispatch.com.