April 30, 2008  

This weekend, C-SPAN’s Book TV channel will feature former US Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 and his recent book launch event at Brown for Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President (St. Martin's Press, April 2008). The candid political memoir, which Chafee wrote as a distinguished visiting fellow at Watson, “offers a behind-the-scenes look at the first six years of the Bush administration from the vantage point of one of the few Republican moderates in the Senate,” according to the publisher.

The program will air at 8:30am and 5pm on Sunday, and again at 6am on Monday.

In the Providence Journal, reviewer Darrell West, a political science professor at Brown, called the book “a Shakespearean tale filled with drama, tragedy and betrayal.”