Robert Lockwood Mills is author of Conscience of a Conspiracy Theorist (Algora 2011), and eleven other books on history, biography and political commentary. Mr. Mills was also co-author of the Illustrated History of Stamford CT. He has been Project Editor for five books on historical topics published by Reader's Digest. His docudrama The Trial of John Wilkes Booth was broadcast on Connecticut Public Radio.

This book is at once a lament about the current political situation in the country, and a call to arms for citizens to reject the politics of polarization. It isn;¢t enough to argue, "The other side is awful." We passively accept our two-party...

This book is at once a lament about the current political situation in the country, and a call to arms for citizens to reject the politics of polarization. It isn;¢t enough to argue, "The other side is awful." We passively accept our two-party system as being vital to the functioning of a democratic republic, when in fact the Founding Fathers, especially George Washington, feared that the formation of political parties would lead to the preeminence of the parties themselves over the commonweal. Obviously, this has occurred. Our media, especially television, thrive on controversy, often for controversy's sake. So, they happily highlight spitting contests between political rivals, while pretending to act as a balancing scale. It doesn;¢t work, because the scale itself is broken.