Theodore Hamm

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Theodore Hamm
Theodore Hamm

Theodore Hamm (born September 14, 1966, in Chicago) is the founding editor of The Brooklyn Rail. His first book, Rebel and a Cause, about the 1960 execution of San Quentin death row author Caryl Chessman, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. His next book, The New Blue Media: Progressive Politics and Culture in the Bush Years, is forthcoming from the New Press.

Hamm's essays and editorials have received awards from the Independent Press Association - New York, and in 1997 he received the Outstanding Volunteer Service award from San Quentin State Prison for teaching in the prison's college program. He is currently an associate professor of urban studies at Metropolitan College of New York. He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Rebel and a Cause at University of California Press

Articles written in The Nation

The New Press

[edit] External links

The Brooklyn Rail's Official Website