ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thom Hartmann is the four-time Project Censored Award–winning, New York Times best-selling author of more than 25 books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, politics, and economics, and the number one progressive-talk-show host in the United States.

His daily three-hour radio/TV show is syndicated on commercial radio stations nationwide, on nonprofit and community stations nationwide and in Europe and Africa by Pacifica, across the entire North American continent on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, on its own YouTube channel, via podcast, on Facebook Live, worldwide through the US American Forces Network, and through the Thom Hartmann app in the App Store and for Android. The show is also simulcast as TV in real time into over 60 million US homes by the Free Speech TV network on Dish Network, DirecTV, and cable TV systems nationwide.

He has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools, and refugee centers in India, Uganda, Australia, Colombia, Russia, Israel, and the United States. Formerly rostered with the state of Vermont as a psychotherapist, founder of the Michigan Healing Arts Center, and licensed as an NLP Trainer by Richard Bandler, he was the originator of the revolutionary Hunter/Farmer Hypothesis to understand attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

In the field of environmentalism, Thom has cowritten and costarred in four documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and is also featured in his documentary theatrical releases The 11th Hour and Ice on Fire. His book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, about the end of the age of oil and the inspiration for The 11th Hour, is an international best seller and used as a textbook in many schools.

Thom lives with his wife of 48 years, Louise, and their two dogs and three cats, on the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. They’re the parents of three adult children.