System, The: (UK ONLY) - Softcover

Johnson, Haynes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316111457 ISBN 13: 9780316111454

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1997

Synopsis

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'.

About this title

Product Description:

[ System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point By ( Author ) Apr-1997 Paperback

Book Description:

Using a behind-the-scenes account of 1994's most bruising legislative battle as a case in point, two of America's political observers show how 'The System' invariably works against real and necessary change.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316111457
• ISBN 13: 9780316111454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 708