So damn much money : the triumph of lobbying and the corrosion of American government /
The story of the monumental growth of lobbying in Washington, D.C., and how it undermines effective government and pollutes our politics. Washington journalist Robert G. Kaiser explains how and why, over the last four decades, Washington became a dysfunctional capital. Special interests use campaign...
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New York :
Knopf,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- New American politics
- 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
- Government broken by politics
- Hard times
- A corroded culture.