The System: (UK ONLY)
Publishing Details
The System: (UK ONLY)
By (Author) Haynes Johnson
By (author) David S. Broder
Little, Brown & Company
Little, Brown & Company
15th January 1998
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
Constitution: government and the state
320
Physical Properties
704
Width 147mm, Height 216mm
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'.
Author Bio
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.
