E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Now out in paperback, this important book examines the deep ideological divide that separates our country. E. J. Dionne, Jr. is a Professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. He writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post on national policy and politics. He is a frequent guest on NPR, ABC's This Week and NBC's Meet the Press. Read the NYT review of his book here, http://nyti.ms/​ZPy1oe and the Post's review here: http://bit.ly/T​7CkG9.

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Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in the Age of Discontent by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Troubled by the angry rhetoric and fear-inducing approaches currently being used to educate voters about their choices? This book explores the rapid shifts we've seen in left-right politics using a historical lens to reflect on just what all this acrimony is about.

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Who are we as a nation? And what is it that’s tearing us apart? In Our Divided Political Heart, E. J. Dionne Jr., one of our most respected political commentators, argues that Americans can’t agree on who we are because we can’t agree on who we’ve been. The American tradition, Dionne says, points not to radical self-reliance and self-interest, but to a balance between our love of individual freedom and our devotion to community. With a deep understanding of our nation’s past, Dionne crafts an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning our current political atmosphere.

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Columnist and NPR Regular E. J. Dionne speaking & signing Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent.

One of America’s most respected and well-known political analysts weighs in on what is tearing us apart—the ascendency of individualism and the diminishment of community—just in time for the election.

Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation’s political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr. argues that Americans can’t agree on who we are because we can’t agree on who we’ve been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans. Dionne takes on the Tea Party’s distortions of American history and shows that the true American tradition points not to radical individualism, but to a balance between our love of individualism and our devotion to community.

E. J. Dionne JR. is a columnist for The Washington Post, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. He appears weekly on NPR and regularly on MSNBC and NBC’s Meet the Press. His twice-weekly op-ed column is now syndicated in 140 newspapers. His writing has been published in the Atlantic, the New Republic, the American Prospect, the Washington Post Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, New Statesman, and elsewhere. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including the classic bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. His most recent book is Souled Out.

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Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent E.J. Dionne, Jr. E. J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow in government studies at the Brookings Institution, a political correspondent for the Washington Post, and a professor at Georgetown University.He is the author of numerous books, including Why Americans Hate Politics, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right. In Our Divided Political Heart, Dionne analyzes past and current U.S. politics in presenting his plan to rediscover the idea of progress and to put an end to fears of American decline. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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