Thomas E. Patterson is an American political scientist. He is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School.^[1][2]

Early life

Patterson served in the Vietnam War as a lieutenant in the US Army Special Forces.^[3]

Writings

Patterson has authored a number of textbooks and other books:

• Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself? (2020)
• Summary of The Mueller Report, for those too busy to read It all (2019)
• How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy (2019)
• We The People (2018, 2016) - textbook
• Informing the News (2013)
• The American Democracy (2012)
• Out of Order: An incisive and boldly original critique of the news media's domination of America's political process (2011)
• The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty (2009)