<b>Senator Joseph Lieberman offers a master class in effective government by probing his forty years in elective office¿from the Vietnam War era to the Presidency of Barack Obama¿and by shining a light on historic acts of centrism and compromise, extracting productive and problem-solving lessons and techniques we need now more than ever.</b><br><br> In this era of extremism, our largest problems remain unsolved and our international leadership is compromised. Having two fiercely opposed political parties is what John Adams, the second President of the United States, dreaded ¿as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.¿<br><br> If American government is to work, it must do so in the center¿where open discussion, hard negotiation, and effective compromise take place. No living politician knows this better than former Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who served for forty years in state and national government, including twenty-four in the United States Senate and a campaign for the