So Damn Much MoneyWith a New Foreword In So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging the country’s best citizens from serving in office. Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our political system through the colorful story of Gerald S. J. Cassidy, one of Washington’s most successful lobbyists. Superbly told, it’s an illuminating dissection of a political system badly in need of reform. |
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Indhold
| 3 | |
CHAPTER J1 A New Kind of Business | 64 |
CIIAPTIER Corrupt or Correct? 32 | 82 |
CHAPTER 1 Earnlarks Become Routine | 98 |
CHAPTER A Great wakc11i11g I 14 | 114 |
CHAPTER A Iarriage Unravels 1 | 165 |
CHAPTER Is Tricks of the Lobbying Trade | 183 |
PTlIR 14 The New Technology of Politics | 197 |
CHAPTERI7 Influencing Policy for Profit 2 | 226 |
CHAPTERI8 Public Service Private Rewards 1 50 | 250 |
CHAPTERIQ Radical Ends Radical Mcniis | 274 |
CHAPTERZI Elections Bought and Sold 190 | 290 |
CHAPTER23 Hard Times | 319 |
CHAPTERZ4 A Corroded Culture | 341 |
Awmwfidgmmm | 361 |
| 388 | |
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Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | So Damn Much Money |
| Forfatter | Robert G. Kaiser |
| Udgiver | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0307271250, 9780307271259 |
| Længde | 384 sider |
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