{"id":4653,"date":"2015-02-03T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2015-02-03T10:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:02:32","slug":"tom-schallers-new-book-the-stronghold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4653","title":{"rendered":"Tom Schaller&#8217;s New Book: The Stronghold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stronghold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-4654 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stronghold.jpg\" alt=\"stronghold\" width=\"198\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stronghold.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stronghold-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know any political scientist than Tom Schaller who does a better job of accurately assessing where American politics is headed and writing smart, coherent (read: non-academic) work about current American. Besides being <a href=\"http:\/\/poli.umbc.edu\/faculty-staff\/faculty-1\/\">Chair of the Political Science Department<\/a> at UMBC, Tom writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/balnews-thomas-f.-schaller-20130507-staff.html\">regular column for the <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Tom is smart, witty, and insightful. Heck, he was even on Colbert.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re around Baltimore on Wednesday, February 3rd, go see him talk about his new book, <em>The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House,<\/em> at The Ivy Bookshop (6080 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21209) at 7PM. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theivybookshop.com\/upcomingevent\/13809\">RSVP here<\/a>. You&#8217;ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. While Tom is a staunch Democrat, Republicans could learn a lot by listening to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know any political scientist than Tom Schaller who does a better job of accurately assessing where American politics is headed and writing smart, coherent (read: non-academic) work about current American. Besides being Chair of the Political Science Department at UMBC, Tom writes a regular column for the Baltimore Sun.\u00a0 Tom is smart, witty, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom Schaller&#8217;s New Book: The Stronghold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[1213],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","tag-tom-schaller"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}