It's even worse than it looks - Book Review

It's even worse than it looks - Book Review

Biography of the Authors

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was one of the great experimental novelists of the first half of the 20th century. Writing in German, Mann contributed a lengthy list of monumental works, including Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus, and Confessions of Felix Krull. While at university, Mann immersed himself in the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, two very influential German philosophers and cultural critics. Mann's early literary influences were Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, whose psychological realism Mann particularly admired (Mann, 2012).

In 1929, Mann won the Nobel Prize in literature. When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Mann, along with his family, moved to Switzerland, where Mann worked as an editor for various literary journals. In 1938, Mann moved to the United States, working as a visiting professor at Princeton University. While at Princeton, Mann completed several critical works, including a study of Dostoevsky. Mann eventually moved to California but left the United States in 1952, bitterly disappointed by the persecution of communists and communist sympathizers by the U.S. government. Mann received numerous honorary doctorates from both European and American universities (the University of Bonn restored Mann's honorary doctorate in 1947). He died on August 12, 1955, in Zurich at the age of 80, leaving a rich literary legacy of novels reflective of the intellectual and historic struggles of Europe in the 20th century.

Norman J. Ornstein

Born in Ornstein 1948 at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Norman J. Ornstein is one of the great scholars who have been regarded for honesty and truthfulness. At present, he works as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research based in Washington DC, United States. He reserves as a senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission and as election analyst for CBS News. His writings can be found in numerous newspapers of US and other publications related to Major U.S. politics. Mr. Ornstein has BA from the University of Minnesota, where he was rewarded Aussi year honorary Doctor of Laws degree (Mann, 2012). He has also received a MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. In addition, he also worked as a member of the Board of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Campaign Legal Center as well as of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society as well as the Center for U.S. Global Engagement.

Thesis of the Book

How the American constitutional system came into incident with the new political extremism. The thesis of the book was that the Republicans are the problem.

Discussion

Mann and Ornstein has announced the release of their work April 27, 2012 Op-Ed in Washington Post, where they provided a summary of their findings. They described how he Republican Party has moved to the radical right, and in doing so gave the management of the strategy to kill or prevent any and all suggestions ...