The World Next Week: August 4, 2011
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Speakers: Thomas Mann, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Presider: James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations
May 3, 2012
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein discuss their new book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.
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