The System; The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point

Language: English

Published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA, 1996

0316469696 / 9780316469692

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24 cm. xviii, 668, [2] pages. Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed and dated on half title page with sentiment by the author (Johnson). Pages 191-198 have small loss at bottom fore-edge, no loss of text. Haynes Bonner Johnson (July 9, 1931 - May 24, 2013) was an American journalist, author, and television analyst. He reported on most of the major news stories of the latter half of the 20th century and was widely regarded as one of the top American political commentators. Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1966, for his coverage of the civil rights crisis in Selma, Alabama. The award marked the first time in Pulitzer Prize history that a father and son both received awards for reporting; his father, Malcolm Johnson, won in 1949 for the New York Sun series, "Crime on the Waterfront," which was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film, On the Waterfront. David Salzer Broder (September 11, 1929 - March 9, 2011), was an American journalist, writing for The Washington Post for over 40 years. He was also an author, television news show pundit, and university lecturer. For more than half a century, Broder reported on every presidential campaign, beginning with the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson race. Derived from a Kirkus review: A sobering play-by-play of Bill Clinton's abortive crusade to reform health care. Clinton came into office, note Washington-based journalists Johnson and Broder, committed to making sweeping changes so that all citizens would have access to health care. However, despite a Democratic-controlled Congress, and opinion polls showing that most Americans favored such reforms, Clinton emerged from the battle badly scarred. Johnson and Broder show that several scarcely controllable factors collided to produce the rejection of his 1,342-page bill of reform. Among them were the Republican backlash then being orchestrated by Newt Gingrich in a successful bid to become speaker of the House; lobbyists' adoption of new techniques of engaging public opinion; the failure of White House staffers, led by Ira Magaziner, to communicate their ideas effectively; competition among leading Democrats to introduce health-care packages of their own; and a highly effective campaign, to discredit Bill and Hillary Clinton. Most of all, however, Clinton failed to reckon with the power of vested interests and of the so-called Gingrich revolution. The defeat was titanic. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

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Title
The System; The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
Author
Johnson, Haynes Bonner, and Broder, David S.
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA
Publication year
1996
Condition
Very good
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Very good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0316469696
ISBN 13
9780316469692
Edition
1st Edition
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