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Informationen zum Autor E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a bestselling author, a syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Washington Post and nearly a hundred other newspapers, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University. His Why Americans Hate Politics won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a nominee for the National Book Award. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio and on other radio and television programs. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Mary Boyle, and their three children. Klappentext One of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices," making it impossible for politicians to solve problems, and alienating voters in the process. Zusammenfassung In this new edition of his national bestseller! E. J. Dionne brings up to date his influential proposals for a politics that can and must find a balance between rights and obligations! between responsibility and compassion. From the New! Updated Introduction: "At the heart of Why Americans Hate Politics is the view that ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow. I believe ideas matter not only to elites and intellectuals! but also to rank and file voters. Indeed! I often think that the rank and file see the importance of ideas more clearly than the elites! who often find themselves surprised by the rise of the movements that arise from the bottom up and shape our politics."
