Politics As Usual

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Ron Brownstein, political director for the Atlantic Group, former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America (Penguin Press, 2007), talks about extreme partisanship in Washington D.C.

The Second Civil War is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Ron Brownstein will be reading at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble at 7pm, 11/14/2007.

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