“It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism”
IFE Steward Norm Ornstein and co-author Tom Mann held the Washington DC launch of their new book “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Consitutional System Collided with the New Polictics of Extremism.”
Seen attending the book party: ambassadors, from Australia, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Portugal, and Japan, three senators (Al Franken, Evan Bayh, and Ben Cardin); Reps. John Dingell, Henry Waxman, Chris Van Hollen, Rick Larson, Ted Deutsch; Chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski; Chairman of the FTC Jon Liebowitz; Judge William Webster; R.David Edelman, Cyber czar at NSC; journalists Howard Fineman, Dan Froomkin, Eleanor Clift, and WAMU’s Diane Rehm.
Congressman John Dingell announced the Ornstein/Mann Scholarship fund at the University of Michigan which will endow scholarships for the next generation of leaders looking to find common ground.