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Michael Tomasky (b. 1960) is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author. He is currently the editor in chief of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
sky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He attended West Virginia University for undergrad and then studied political science in graduate school at New York University. From 1995 to 2002, he was a columnist at New York, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Lingua Franca, George, and GQ.
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Michael Tomasky (b. 1960) is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author. He is currently the editor in chief of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
Biography
Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He attended West Virginia University for undergrad and then studied political science in graduate school at New York University. From 1995 to 2002, he was a columnist at New York, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Lingua Franca, George, and GQ. He later became executive editor of The American Prospect.
Tomasky is the author of Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America (1996), a study of the intellectual collapse of the American left, and of Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign (2001), a chronicle of Hillary Clinton's successful election to the Senate in 2000.
In 2003, Tomasky contributed a chapter to George Packer’s The Fight Is for Democracy: "There was a liberal case for invading Iraq which has nothing to do with trumped-up arguments about Saddam's nuclear capability and everything to do with the suffering of the Iraqi people - that is, it has to do with free elections, freedom of assembly and speech, equality under the law, everything we say we hold dear and need to be willing to support, even militarily if it becomes necessary." . This earned him the sobriquet 'liberal hawk'. He did not, however, support the war.
As of 2007, Tomasky lives with his wife in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Works
Books
- Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America, Michael Tomasky, Free Press, June 10, 1996, ISBN 978-0684827506
- Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign, Michael Tomasky, Free Press, February 15, 2001, ISBN 978-0684873022
Articles
- Tomasky, Michael, New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 14; 25 September 2008.
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