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So damn much money : the triumph of lobbying and the corrosion of American government

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 -- from cover
Print Book, English, 2010
1st Vintage books ed View all formats and editions
Vintage Books, New York, 2010
x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780307385888, 0307385884
627709837
A scandal for our time
Looking down on the Capitol
The art of self-invention
A Washington that worked
A new kind of business
Corrupt or correct?
Earmarks become routine
A great awakening
A marriage unravels
"Would that be proper?"
A money machine
Disaster averted
Tricks of the lobbying trade
The new technology of politics
Disorder in the House
Becoming a conglomerate
Influencing policy for profit
Public service, private rewards
Radical ends, radical means
Cash cow on the Potomac
Elections bought and sold
Politics, then government
Hard times
A corroded culture
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2009. With new epilogue