The System
(UK ONLY)
Published on 15. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
704 pages
978-0-316-11145-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
982 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-11145-4 (9780316111454)
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Persons
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.