ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thom Hartmann is a three-time Project Censored-award winning, New York Times best-selling author of 20 books in print in 14 languages and the host of an Air America radio talk show. Formerly on the Vermont roster of psychotherapists, executive director of a residential treatment facility for severely emotionally disturbed and abused children, and a guest faculty member of Goddard College, he was also CEO of an Atlanta-based advertising agency and an advertising and marketing consultant to corporations and governments on five continents. Trained by Leif Roland, Paul McKenna, and Richard Bandler, he is licensed and certified as a Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner and an NLP trainer by the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Bandler has written the foreword to one of his books. The father of three grown children, he lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Louise, and their attack cat, Higgins.