The System

by Haynes Johnson and David S Broder

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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".
  • ISBN10 0316469696
  • ISBN13 9780316469692
  • Publish Date 1 May 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 2 March 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little, Brown & Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Language English