Rick Shenkman

Rick Shenkman’s latest book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter, makes the provocative argument that as American voters have gained political power in the last 50 years, they have become increasingly ignorant of politics and world affairs—and dangerously susceptible to manipulation.  An associate professor of history at George Mason University, Rick is regularly seen on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC and is the founder and publisher of George Mason’s History News Network, the only website on the Internet wholly devoted to the task of putting events in the news into historical perspective every day. http://home.sprynet.com/~rshenkman/