Book Conversation: "American Politics Film Festival" with Tom Cronin
What can Veep teach us about politicians? What does Forest Gump reveal to us about heroes and patriotism? How can Hamilton teach us about capitalism?
The 2025 book American Politics Film Festival: Understanding US Politics Through Film invites readers to explore such questions, bringing political quandaries to life through film and television. Author and professor Tom Cronin will join FOLCS as we investigate big-and small-screen media as tools for understanding American political culture.
Tom Cronin
Thomas E. Cronin is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Colorado College. He is President Emeritus of Whitman College (1993-2005) and a past Interim President at Colorado College (1991). His publications include Imagining a Great Republic: Political Novels and the Idea of America (2018); Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox (2012); Colorado Politics and Policy: Governing a Purple State, co-authored with Robert D. Loevy (2012); Fireside Chats of a Retired Collee President (2025) and The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, 5th edition, co-authored with Michael A. Genovese (2013).