Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress

by Thomas H. Allen and Tom Allen

Book Overview

The rhetoric of the 2012 presidential campaign exposed the deeply rooted sources of political polarization in American. One side celebrated individualism and divided the public into "makers and takers;" the other preached "better together" as the path forward. Both focused their efforts on the "base" not the middle.

In Dangerous Convictions, former Democratic Congressman Tom Allen argues that what's really wrong with Congress is the widening,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199931984
• ISBN13: 9780199931989
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"