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Zusatztext "Engelhardt is absorbing and provocative. Everything he writes is of a satisfyingly congruent piece." --New York Times Informationen zum Autor Tom Engelhardt created and runs Tomdispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author The End of Victory Culture and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Englehardt is also co-founder and co-editor of Metropolitan Books' The American Empire Project. Klappentext The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Vorwort *Title will be promoted on the author's popular website and e-newsletter, TomDispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute *We will also widely market this book on progressive radio, NPR stations, left print and media publications, and at activist and scholarly events. TomDispatch.com average hits: unique visitors (3.5 million total) per day - 4,794 week - 33,653 month - 145,833 year - 1.75 million hits (5.35 million total) per day - 7,328 week - 51,442 month - 222,916 year - 2.675 million subscribers to email list 21,600 whatever "stickiness" measures you have 1.53 avg page views 1:57 Time on Site 76% bounce rate 44.53% new visits international (top 25 countries) United States 2557596 Canada 243615 United Kingdom 110452 Australia 88767 Germany 42761 France 32381 Netherlands 26730 Japan 25705 New Zealand 21223 Sweden 17460 India 16827 Switzerland 16266 Spain 16026 Mexico 15372 Ireland 14966 Italy 14430 China 11463 Norway 10375 Brazil 9699 Denmark 8571 Belgium 8557 South Korea 8416 Thailand 8328 Turkey 7177 South Africa 6840 Zusammenfassung Tom Engelhardt, creator of the vital website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to late last night, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end. Since 2001, Tom Engelhardt has written regular reports for his popular site TomDispatch that have provided badly-needed insight into U.S. militarism and its effects, both at home and abroad. When others were celebrating the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, he warned of the enormous dangers of both occupations. In The American Way of War, Engelhardt documents Washington’s ongoing commitment to military bases to preserve?and extend?its empire; reveals damning information about the American reliance on airpower, at great cost to civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan; and shows that the US empire has deep historical roots that precede the Bush administration?and continue today into the presidency of Barack Obama. "Tom Engelhardt provides a clear-eyed examination of U.S. foreign policy in the Bush and Obama years, and details unsparingly how Obama has inherited -- and in many cases exacerbated -- the ills of the Bush era.... an important book for anyone hoping to understand how the U.S. arrived at its current predicament during the Bush years, and how it remains in this predicament despite Obama's best efforts -- or perhaps because of them." ?Daniel Luban, Inter-Press Service ?Tom Engelhardt is among our most trenchant critics of American perpetual war. Like I. F. Stone in the 1960s, he has an uncanny ability to ferret out and see clearly the ugly truths hidden in government reports and statistics. No cynic, he always measures the sordid reality against a bright vision of an America that lives up to its highest ideals.” ?Juan R. Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan ...
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"Engelhardt is absorbing and provocative. Everything he writes is of a satisfyingly congruent piece." --New York Times
