System, The: (UK ONLY) - Brossura

Johnson, Haynes

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0316111457 ISBN 13: 9780316111454

Casa editrice: Back Bay Books, 1997

Riassunto

The authors show in detail how 'The System' has corrupted America's political institutions. They take as an example the Clinton health care reform initiative - the most ambitious call for US government action since the 1960s. Granted exclusive and unprecedented access to closed-door meetings by Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senators Bob Dole, Edward Kennedy and Newt Gingrich amongst others and using these meetings and the health care plan the authors give a blow by blow destruction of a policy that aimed to please everybody and ended by satisfying no-one due to special interstate pressure groups, party political bickering, political gamesmanship and the sheer inertia of the American 'system'.

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Descrizione del libro:

Using a behind-the-scenes account of 1994's most bruising legislative battle as a case in point, two of America's political observers show how 'The System' invariably works against real and necessary change.

L'autore:

Haynes Johnson has reported on every US President from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton for The Washington Post and Washington Star. David Broder is a politcal correspondent for The Washington Post and is also a syndicated columnist in more than 300 newspapers, a regular on CNN and NBC's Meet The Press and a Pulitizer prize-winner as is his co-author.

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• Editore: Back Bay Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316111457
• ISBN 13: 9780316111454
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 708