American Politics 2015: Looking Forward
MICHAEL BARONE
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
Claremont McKenna College
Reception at 5:30 p.m. Dinner served at 6:00 p.m. Presentation starts at 6:45 p.m.
Michael Barone is Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner and a Resident Fellow at
the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor, and co-author of The
Almanac of American Politics.
Along with being the principal co-author, of The Almanac of American Politics, first published in
1971 with new editions appearing every two years, Barone is also the author or co-author of
another six books. They are Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan
(1990), State Legislative Elections: Voting Patterns and Demographics (1997), The New
Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (2001), Hard America, Soft America:
Competition vs. Coddling and the Competition for the Nation’s Future (2004), Our First Revolution:
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers (2007), and Shaping
Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and its Politics (2013).
Barone has written for many publications, including U.S. News and World Report, The Economist,
The New York Times, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, The Weekly Standard, The New
Republic, National Review, The American Spectator, American Enterprise, The Times Literary
Supplement, and The Daily Telegraph of London.
Barone grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan. He is a graduate of Harvard College and
Yale Law School.