Dr. Thomas E. Patterson

Dr. Thomas E. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Patterson is the author of the recently published How America Lost Its Mind, which looks at the problem of misinformation. His other books include Out of Order, which examined the media’s political role and received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. Dr. Patterson’s first book, The Unseeing Eye, which looked at television’s impact on politics and was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the leading books on public opinion of the past half century.

A Minnesota native, he earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota, where he studied after serving in the U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam.