CONWAY, Ark. (July 29, 2016) – Hendrix College will host “Political Extremism and the 2016 American Presidential Election,” a lecture by scholar and best-selling author Dr. Thomas Mann, on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 6 p.m., in Mills A in the Mills Social Sciences
Center.
One of the nation's top experts on elections and the increasing brinksmanship and gridlock in American politics, Dr. Mann is a resident scholar at the
University of California at Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and a senior fellow at
The Brookings Institution.
His latest book, It's
Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with
the New Politics of Extremism, co-authored with Norman Ornstein, is a New York Times bestseller.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the W. C. Buthman Endowed Visiting Scholar and Lectureship Program, the Hendrix College Department of Politics and International Relations, the James and Emily Bost Odyssey Professorship (held by Dr. Kiril Kolev), and the M.E. and Ima Graves Peace
Distinguished Professorship (held by Dr. Jay Barth).
For more information, contact Dr. Kolev at 501-450-1236 or
kolev@hendrix.edu.
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That
Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.