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Lawrence O'Donnell

Biography

Lawrence O'Donnell

Lawrence O’Donnell is the host of “The Last Word” on MSNBC. Formerly an Emmy Award-winning executive producer and writer for “The West Wing,” O’Donnell also served as senior advisor to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), chief of staff to the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works and the Senate Finance Committee. He is the author of DEADLY FORCE and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. Born in Boston, O’Donnell graduated from Harvard University.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Books by Lawrence O'Donnell

Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
by Lawrence O'Donnell - History, Nonfiction, Politics

The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America’s shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how we got to where we are now. PLAYING WITH FIRE represents O’Donnell’s master class in American electioneering, embedded in the epic human drama of a system --- and a country --- coming apart at the seams in real time.