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Tom Vanderbilt

Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America. He lives in Brooklyn.

Selected bibliography

  • Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America (2002)
  • The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon (1998)

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In the LRB archive

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subscriber-only content Dry-Cleaned · 21 August 2003

  • The Manchurian Candidate: BFI Film Classics by Greil Marcus

subscriber-only content Summer Simmer · 22 August 2002

An Even Deeper Bunker · 7 March 2002

  • Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World by James Bamford
  • Total Surveillance: Investigating the Big Brother World of E-Spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV by John Parker

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 not available in archive It looks so charming · 29 October 1998

  • No Sweat edited by Andrew Ross