show bio Tom Hamburger

Tom Hamburger is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, specializing in the White House and the executive branch. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, he is a graduate of Oberlin College, and worked previously for the Wall Street Journal, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the Arkansas Gazette. Hamburger is the author of One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century.

One Party Country
Date: 9/29/2006

Tom Hamburger, lead political writer for the L.A. Times, discusses his latest book One Party Country, about the rise of the Republican Party since the 1970’s. According to Hamburger, the shift from a Democratic to a Republican majority over the last 40 years has been orchestrated by one man, former President George W. Bush political adviser Karl Rove. Hamburger also claims that part of this shift was due in part to Bush’s “Faith-based spending” initiatives, where more money and resources were pumped into swing states like Ohio and Minnesota. Rove and Bush want to build a broad Republican Party that includes many different groups especially the growing Latino population, he says, but the immigration debate stands as a major road block in this plan.

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