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Title: The Bill: How Legislation Really Becomes Law : A Case Study of the National Service Bill by Steven Waldman ISBN: 0-14-023304-0 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Wake Me When It Is Over
Comment: I do not think I have ever taken this much time to read such a short book. At least it seamed to me that it took a long time. It was like walking up a never-ending hill. The only reason I kept plodding along is that I was interested in the overall outcome. What I am trying to say is that the book is dull. It is also that the subject is a bit on the non-sexy side so coupled with the authors "mathematics textbook" style of writing, it made a little book into something close to the Battan death march. Ok, I may be overstating it a bit, after all I did work my way through the book. The one good thing I can say is that the first half of the book was far better then the second half. How the author turned his already dull prose into something that was almost life threatening I will never know.
With all this said there were some parts of the book that gave me some insight on how legislation works its way along the process. The part I thought was most interesting is all the groups that stick their hands into the bill. People with what appeared to me to have almost no or little effects from the bill got involved and tried to get their two cents in. Plus all the back handed and obstructionist activities made me wonder how anything gets done in Washington. Overall the book was dull, but did offer a tour of what it takes to get a bill passed. There has to be better books out there on the topic, I just do not know what they are.
Rating: 2
Summary: Eh...bleh...
Comment: The story itself isn't a very interesting or informative one. The author tries to end chapters with a catchy phrase that is cynical/humorous/meaningful, but they rarely come off well. Journalistic style, if you like reading a 250 page news article, then you'll love it, but if you have a hard enough time getting through the lead of a front page article in the "New York Time," then don't bother.
Rating: 3
Summary: pretty good
Comment: Steven Waldman does an excellent job of explaining the substantive issues surrounding the national service bill and its corollary, student aid reform, and showing how conflicting ideals were reconciled or submerged. The detail gets a bit tedious in the last chapter, but the book does live up to its subtitle. Johnson & Broder's "The System," about the 1994 health care reform campaign, is a longer but more exciting book along the same lines.
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Title: Read Me First for a User's Guide to Qualitative Methods by Janice M. Morse, Lyn Richards ISBN: 0761918914 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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Title: Reading and Understanding Research by Lawrence F. Locke, Waneen Wyrick Spirduso, Stephen J. Silverman ISBN: 0761903070 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, Revised Edition by Deborah Stone ISBN: 0393976254 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.05 |
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Title: A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox by Anthony Weston ISBN: 0195130405 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $46.95 |
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Title: School: The Story of American Public Education by Sarah Mondale, David Tyack, Sarah Modale, Sarah B. Patton, Merylh Streep ISBN: 0807042218 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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