A review by stapilus
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism by Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann

5.0

A good overview dating from 2011, about the nihilism and gridlock then in place in Washington - and which has gotten only worse since. There's been, sadly, remarkably little need to adjust anything that was written back then, though the set of prescriptions looks a little incomplete these days. Still, this is a good, rigorous overview by two highly regarded scholars whose background is more conservative than liberal, though their conclusions will not please many on the right.