Galleys Available Phil Donahue will help promote the book. Blurbs forthcoming from: Cornel West, Eddie Vedder, Sean Penn, Tom Morello, Ralph Nader, Chris Hedges, and others We will build off of the momentum generated by "Body of War" a National Board of Review winning documentary produced by Phil Donahue about Tomas Young's life. National Print Campaign: Will send advance copies to NY Times, SF Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, as well as trade publications Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Foreword Reviews National TV & Radio Campaign: MSNBC, PBS Newshour, Democracy Now!, C-SPAN BookTV, The Daily Show, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Tavis Smiley, David Sirota Progressive Talk, GRIT TV, NPR Online and Social Media Campaign: Haymarket Books has 13k FB fans, 8k Twitter followers. Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder is close with the author and invested in the book and will write a blurb, support launch event. Vedder has 2M Facebook fans. Published on April 4th to coincide with 12th anniversary of Tomas Young's injury in Iraq.

Tomas Young’s War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars. Based on hours of interviews with Young and those close to him, the book puts the reader alongside Young as he struggles with life as a paralyzed veteran, suffering frustration and humiliation as he attempts to reenter society and resume as normal an existence as possible. It shows his fight to balance his precarious health with his drive to speak out for veterans care and against the war, and the impact his catastrophic injuries had on his family and his relationships. This emotional and powerful book sheds light on many crucial but often overlooked issues such as veterans’ care, public attitudes toward the disabled, medical marijuana, and the terminally ill. Tomas Young’s War shares everything, as unflinchingly honest as Tomas himself: the depression, the pain, the love, and laughter . . . the life of this man whose world was turned upside down by an Iraqi bullet more than ten years ago. Throughout, it serves as a powerful testament to the true cost of war.