The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point. This item is unavailable.The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point

This text shows in detail how "The System" has corrupted America's political institutions. It takes as an example the Clinton health care initiative - the most ambitious call for US government action since the 1960s. Granted 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 everyone and ended by satisfying no-one due to special interest pressure groups, party political bickering, political gamesmanship and the sheer inertia of the American "system".

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.