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Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman has been termed "the most honest and incisive media critic writing today" (the National Catholic Reporter). He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, the "Liberal Media" columnist of The Nation, the "Altercation" Weblogger for MSNBC.com, and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he writers and edits the "Think Again" column. Currently working on a history of postwar liberalism, Professor Alterman has published several national bestsellers: What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green), and his newest book, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences.His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. Professor Alterman is also the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (1998). A frequent lecturer and contributor to virtually every significant national publication in the US and many in Europe, in recent years, he has also been a columnist for: Worth, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and The Sunday Express (London). A senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University, and former Adjunct Professor of Journalism at NYU and Columbia, Professor Alterman received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and his Ph.D. in US History from Stanford. He lives with his family in Manhattan where he is at work on a history of postwar American liberalism
For more information, see: http://www.ericalterman.com/
