- Paperback: 308 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; 1st Revised edition edition (27 Feb 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140233040
- ISBN-13: 978-0140233049
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.8 x 19.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,617,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Provides a look at the inner workings of Washington, exploring efforts to define and create Clinton's National Service Bill.
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Format:Paperback
A well written book, exhaustive, sometimes boring. Lots of detail. Gives a very good look at politics, at how power, money, sinecure and ego all come together to get a bill passed. Shows that politics is 90% money and 10% intention. Lobbyists, senators and businessmen get together to divvy up the loot. Clinton is shown as a smart operator who attempts to play to the largest possible audience and still stay true to his beliefs/ethics/ideals.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Eh...bleh...
28 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
The story itself isn't a very interesting or informative one. The author tries to end chapters with a catchy phrase that is cynical/humorous/meaningful, but they rarely come off well. Journalistic style, if you like reading a 250 page news article, then you'll love it, but if you have a hard enough time getting through the lead of a front page article in the "New York Time," then don't bother.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
pretty good
23 Aug 1999
Format:Paperback
Steven Waldman does an excellent job of explaining the substantive issues surrounding the national service bill and its corollary, student aid reform, and showing how conflicting ideals were reconciled or submerged. The detail gets a bit tedious in the last chapter, but the book does live up to its subtitle. Johnson & Broder's "The System," about the 1994 health care reform campaign, is a longer but more exciting book along the same lines.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great insight into all that happens in Congress and why
18 April 1999
Format:Paperback
Great look at all the inside games that must take place for a bill to pass Congress. Who switches sides, who you can trust, who stabs whom in the back at the last moment. Any AmeriCorps member should read this to get a perspective of all that went into creating the program that you were a part of. Made me realize why things are the way they are in a program that has stived to do so much for our country and the young people in it.
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