Thomas E. Patterson - We The People

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WE THE PEOPLE: AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, TWELFTH EDITION

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Names: Patterson, Thomas E., author.

Title: We the people / Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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To My Children.

Alex and Leigh

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Courtesy of Thomas Patterson

Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was previously Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University. Raised in a small Minnesota town near the Iowa and South Dakota borders, he attended South Dakota State University as an undergraduate and served in the U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam before enrolling at the University of Minnesota, where he received his PhD in 1971.

Since then, he has regularly taught introductory American government. In 2013 he was chosen as teacher of the year and adviser of the year by Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government students, the first time a member of its faculty has received both awards simultaneously.

He has authored numerous books and articles, which focus mainly on elections, the media, and citizenship. His most recent book, Informing the News, which was described as superb and mesmerizing in one review, examines the public misinformation resulting from the emergence of partisan outlets and the decline in citizens attention to news. An earlier book, The Vanishing Voter (2002), describes and explains the long-term decline in voter participation. His book Out of Order (1994) received national attention when President Clinton advised every politician and journalist to read it. In 2002 Out of Order received the American Political Science Associations Graber Award for the best book of the past decade in political communication. Another of Pattersons books, The Mass Media Election (1980), received a Choice award as Outstanding Academic Title, 19801981. Pattersons first book, The Unseeing Eye (1976), was selected by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the 50 most influential books of the past half century in the field of public opinion.

His research has been funded by major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

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