System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point

Haynes Bonner Johnson

ISBN 10: 0316469696 / ISBN 13: 9780316469692

Edité par Little Brown and Company May 1996, 1996

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
• Éditeur: Little Brown and Company May 1996
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0316469696
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780316469692
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• Impression: First Edition
• État de l'article: Collectible-Good
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Politics

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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".

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'.