Description:
In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas Patterson makes a passionate case for fully and fiercely engaging on the side of truth and mutual respect in our present arms race between fact and fake, unity and division, civility and incivility.
Brief description:
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of numerous articles and award-winning books, including Informing the News, The Vanishing Voter, Out of Order, The Mass Media Election, and The Unseeing Eye.
Review Quotes: "How America Lost Its Mind is clearly a book Thomas E. Patterson wishes he did not have to write, but one that needed to be written. From time to time, scholarship should be alarmist. This book is the response of a reasoned, thinking person to a cultural and political calamity that he and many others saw unfolding in slow motion."--Keith Gaddie, coauthor of The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act