How America Became Ungovernable

Bill Schneider, author of "Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable" will describe how Americans vote and why their votes sometimes seem to make no practical sense. Schneider posits that a rift developed in the 1960s between the "Old America" and "New America," which resulted in a populist backlash that ultimately elected Donald Trump in 2016. In "Standoff," Schneider examines hard-fought elections to shed light on how we got to our present political moment and where we are headed.

Bill Schneider is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Brandeis University, and Boston College. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Politico, Reuters, and National Journal. He was CNN’s senior political analyst from 1990 to 2009.

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