Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics - Hardcover

Sabato, Larry J.; Simpson, Glenn R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812924991 ISBN 13: 9780812924992

Publisher: Times Books, 1996

Synopsis

An in-depth analysis of American political corruption reveals how politicians are manipulating, evading, and breaking the law to stay in power; explains how money affects elections; and describes the rise to power of Newt Gingrich and the activities of GOPAC and the Christian Coalition. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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About the Author

Larry J. Sabato is a nationally renowned political scientist and election analyst and holds an endowed chair at the University of Virginia.  He has written seventeen books, including Feeding Frenzy. Glenn R. Simpson broke major national news stories as a reporter at Roll Call. He is now a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

From the Inside Flap

rruption in America is worse today than it has been since the Watergate era. Americans know it, and the politicians have known it for years. Urgent calls for reform have become standard fare, but nothing changes. A Democrat President and a Republican Congress were both elected on the strength of their promises of reform. Neither has delivered. Americans contemplate the tottering remains of our ethically bankrupt political system with despair.

Fact: The Christian Coalition's 1994 voter guides appear to have been skewered to favor Republican candidates in key congressional races across the country, in direct contravention of federal election law.

The truth is, the politicians couldn't be happier dickering over the remains of the welfare state. Because, as you'll learn in Dirty Little Secrets, there is probably not a politician in America who does not benefit directly, personally, and continually from the stat

Edition details

• Publisher: Times Books
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812924991
• ISBN 13: 9780812924992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 430