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The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back
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The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back Hardcover - 2006

by MANN, Thomas E., and Ornstein, Norman J

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with copper lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 272pp. Fine/fine. Superbly bright and tight first edition, nicely inscribed and signed by Ornstein in black ballpoint on half-title page: "9/27/06 / To Bob Malott -- / Great friend, mentor & role model -- / With immense respect, / Norm Ornstein." Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthro-pist.
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Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. The author of numerous books on American government, and a contributor to major magazines and newspapers like Washington Post and New York Times, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mann has served as co-director (with Ornstein) of the Transition to Governing Project and senior counselor (with Ornstein) to the Continuity of Government Commission. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. An election analyst for CBS News, he writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, and he appears regularly on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose. He serves on the board of the Public Broadcasting Service and several other nonprofit groups. Like Mann, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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