Eugene Joseph "E. J." Dionne, Jr. is een Amerikaanse journalist en politiek commentator, en al lange tijd opiniërend columnist voor The Washington Post. Zijn werk richt zich op een diepere analyse van politieke en sociale trends. Dionne onderzoekt hoe de publieke opinie wordt gevormd en wat politieke debatten aanstuurt. Zijn journalistieke stijl kenmerkt zich door diepgaand inzicht en zijn streven om complexe sociale fenomenen te begrijpen.
Barack Obama's political life can be chronicled through a series of major addresses in which he spoke to the nation with a voice uniquely his own. His eloquence, both written and spoken, propelled him to national prominence and ultimately made it possible for the son of a Kenyan man and a white woman from Kansas to become the first black president of the United States.
A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar journalists offering the definitive work on the threat to our democracy posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.
"In the first half of this volume gathers what we and the editors at the Brookings Institution Press believe to be the most important legal documents in the Bush-Gore confrontation ... The book begins with the early advisory rulings on the recounts by Florida state officials. It moves on to the intermediate court rulings and ends with the critical decisions in early December by the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. We have included the dissents in all the major cases ... The second half of the book consists of contemporaneous commentaries on the controversy. These include columns, magazine articles, editorials and also a few news stories that shed important light on the issues at stake"--Page 2.