The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Haynes; Broder, David S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316469696 ISBN 13 : 9780316469692

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 1996

Synopsis

This text shows in detail how "The System" has corrupted America's political institutions. It takes as an example the Clinton health care initiative - the most ambitious call for US government action since the 1960s. Granted 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 everyone and ended by satisfying no-one due to special interest pressure groups, party political bickering, political gamesmanship and the sheer inertia of the American "system".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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'.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316469696
• ISBN 13: 9780316469692
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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