Tom Engelhardt

Thomas M. "Tom" Engelhardt (born 1944) is an American writer and editor. He is the creator of The Nation Institute's tomdispatch.com, an online blog. He is also the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of the 1998 book, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation.

Career

Engelhardt graduated from Yale University, where he was attracted into the study of Chinese history by Mary C. Wright. He then took a master's degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and became in involved in a draft resistance movement in opposition to the American war in Vietnam. As part 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."

Engelhardt has been an editor for more than 30 years, working in book and news publishing. He was a senior editor at Pantheon Books where he edited such books as Maus by Art Spiegelman. Currently he is a consulting editor at Metropolitan Books. He also teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a teaching fellow. In 1991, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship