Featured Book
2012, E.J. Dionne, Jr.
"[A] much-needed fact-based review of the Constitution, a realistic portrait of its creators, and a balanced history of the ongoing friction in the American psyche between desires for liberty and commonwealth. The book clarifies much misinformation swirling around controversies about the founding fathers, the validity of originalism, and the traditional and historic roles of government and the free market in U.S. society. Tea Partiers and Occupiers alike may be surprised and enlightened by this lucid analysis, all the more convincing for its sympathetic treatment of both sides of the argument." — Publishers Weekly
"E. J. Dionne is the thoughtful conservative’s favorite liberal, and the liberal all the rest of us learn from. Our Divided Political Heart is at once a grand arc of American thought from the nation’s founding, and an up-to-the-minute diagnosis of the weird and sudden turn we’ve taken in left-right relations. With malice toward none, Dionne nevertheless sounds the alarm about the new threat to the "long consensus" that’s been key to our stability and our national greatness. A thrilling book, from one of America’s most universally respected minds. You should buy it." — Rachel Maddow