Michael Tomasky
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Michael Tomasky | |
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Born | Michael John Tomasky October 13, 1960 |
Education | Morgantown High School
West Virginia University (BA) New York University (MA) |
Occupation(s) | commentator, author, editor |
Notable credit(s) | Democracy, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Guardian America, The American Prospect, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books |
Michael John Tomasky (born October 13, 1960) is an American columnist, progressive commentator, and author. He is the editor of The New Republic and editor in chief of Democracy. He has been a special correspondent for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, a contributing editor for The American Prospect, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Life and career
Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, the son of Maria (Aluisi) and Michael Tomasky, a trial attorney. He is of Serbian and Italian descent. He attended West Virginia University as an undergraduate and then studied political science in graduate school at New York University. 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 lives with his wife Sarah and daughter (Margot Julianna Kerr Tomasky, born July 6, 2010) in Silver Spring, Maryland.
From 1995 to 2002, Tomasky was a columnist at New York magazine, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. He was later executive editor of liberal magazine The American Prospect, and remains a contributing editor. On October 23, 2007, Guardian America was launched with Tomasky as its editor. On March 3, 2009, he replaced Kenneth Baer as editor of U.S. political journal Democracy, at which time his title at The Guardian changed to editor-at-large. In May 2011 Tomasky left The Guardian to join Newsweek / The Daily Beast as a special correspondent. He is the editor of The New Republic.
Tomasky is the author of Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America (1996), 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.
Bibliography
Books
- —— (February 5, 2019). If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved. W.W. Norton/Liveright Publishing. ISBN 978-1-631-49408-6.
- —— (January 24, 2017). Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001. Times Books. ISBN 978-1-62779-676-7.
- —— (February 15, 2001). Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-87302-2.
- —— (June 10, 1996). Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-82750-6.
Book reviews
Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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2018 | Tomasky, Michael (February 22, 2018). "The worst of the worst". The New York Review of Books. 65 (3): 4, 6, 8. |
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- Living people
- 1960 births
- American columnists
- American male journalists
- American people of Italian descent
- American people of Serbian descent
- American political commentators
- American political writers
- Journalists from West Virginia
- Morgantown High School alumni
- New York University alumni
- People from Morgantown, West Virginia
- The New York Review of Books people
- The Village Voice people
- West Virginia University alumni
- Writers from West Virginia
- The New Republic people