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Title: The Power Game: How Washington Works by Hedrick Smith ISBN: 0-345-41048-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There's something rotten in The District of Columbia!
Comment: Ever wondered why as soon as a candidate takes office, their campaign promises seem to become the first casualty of their incumbency? The Power Game explains this and many other things about that plodding leviathan we call the US Government. I have never read a better book about the inner working of Washington. Nor have I ever read a better argument for campaign reform.
Kendrick Smith has spent more time wandering the corridors of power than most politicians and he sees their twists and turns with a cartographers eye. The message of this book is simple; once you've obtained a position of power it takes consistent and conserted effort to maintain it. the ultimate victim of this constant power stuggle is, of course, democratic process. After reading this book you can't help but feel that our elected officials are minor players compared to the monied interests that consistently make their decisions for them.
If you want to understand what your representatives are doing or where your tax dollars are going- this is the best primer you can get; It's honest, detailed, unbiased and very informative.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inside Guide
Comment: Perhaps a political science classic - Hedrick Smith provides an insightful glimpse not only into Washington's political scene but offers a phenomenal analysis of politics and power itself. he presents why so much of the system has become so cumbersome and complex as people fight for power and control of various aspects. He describes PACs and lobbying groups and their impact on the political system.
He also describes how the various players in Wahsington have grown over time. Take this interesting tidbit from the book: Journalists: 1,522 were acredited to Congrssional press galleries in 1961 and 5,250 in 1987; the 1980 census showed 12,612 journalists citywide. When Truman ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945, I was told, he broke the news to the entire White House press corps - twenty-five reporters. By mid-1987, some 1,708 people had regular White House press passes. So enormous had the wider political community grown - lobbyists, lawyers, journalists, policy think tanks, defense or health consultants, and the hotels, offices, accountants, resterautns, and the service industries that support them - that by 1979 this whole nongovernmental sector actually outnumbered federal government employees in Washington!
Other fascinating facts like that are found throughout the book helping to maintin the interest of the reader. If you want to read a book about Washington, politics and the ultimate Power Game, this is the one for you. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Government 101
Comment: Forget everything you were ever taught or told about how government works. Rick Smith has captured the reality. Though it was written about Washington much of The Power Game is also true of state and sometimes even local government. A must read for anyone with an interest in government or politics.
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Title: WHY AMERICANS HATE POLITICS: THE DEATH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS by E. J., Jr. Dionne ISBN: 0671778773 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust by John B. Judis ISBN: 041593026X Publisher: Brunner-Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Tell Newt to Shut Up: Prizewinning Washington Post Journalists Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolution by David Maraniss, Michael Weisskopf ISBN: 0684832933 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years by Haynes Johnson ISBN: 0393324346 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 16 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: No Place for Amateurs: How Political Consultants Are Reshaping American Democracy by Dennis W. Johnson ISBN: 0415928362 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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