Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky
Born	1960 (age 63–64) Morgantown, West Virginia
Nationality	U.S.
Education	West Virginia University, New York University
Occupation(s)	commentator, author, editor
Notable credit(s)	Democracy, Guardian America, The American Prospect, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books

Michael Tomasky (born 1960) is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author. He is the editor in chief of Democracy, American editor-at-large at Guardian America, a contributing editor for The American Prospect, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Biography

Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. 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, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. He was later executive editor of 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.

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.

Alarmed at polls indicating major Republican gains in the 2010 elections, Tomasky has complained that the Democrats have not been able to equal the Republican appeal to traditional American values. Tomasky says that the Tea Party movement "has been able to arrogate to itself practically every symbol of Americanism and to paint the President, his ideas and policies, and his supporters as not merely un-American but actively anti-American. <ref> Michael Tomasky "The Elections: How Bad for Democrats?" The New York Review October 28, 2010 p 6ref>.

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

External links

• Column archive at The American Prospect
• Column archive at The Guardian
• Column archive at The New York Review of Books
• Conversations with Charlie Rose
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Video discussions/debates involving Tomasky on Bloggingheads.tv
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