IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN IT LOOKS: HOW THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM COLLIDED WITH THE NEW POLITICS OF EXTREMISM

It takes some effort to understand politics
Two friends asked me to recommend summer reading material this morning, so here is a link to a book review for a book that I recommend.  This book took great courage to write, as the review makes clear, and is well worth reading. 

IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN IT LOOKS: HOW THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM COLLIDED WITH THE NEW POLITICS OF EXTREMISM

 

by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. New York: Basic Books. 226pp. Cloth $28.00. ISBN 9780465031337.

Reviewed by Tracy Lightcap, Department of Political Science, LaGrange College. E-mail: tlightcap [at] lagrange.edu

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