American journalist

Michael John Tomasky (born October 13, 1960) is an American columnist, commentator, journalist 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.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Bibliography
  • 2.1 Books
  • 2.2 Book reviews
• 3 References
• 4 External links

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 *le 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.

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

References

External links

• Column archive at The American Prospect
• Column archive at The Daily Beast
• Democracy
• 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
• Works by or about Michael Tomasky in libraries (WorldCat catalog)