The Party's Over: The Failure of Politics in America

Politics & Social Sciences

Broder, David S.

Politics & Government

Harper&Row

Examines the shift in power and leadership, in the United States, to people whose concerns and attitudes have been shaped by the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the 1960s civil-rights marches, and Watergate

Changing of the Guard

Social Sciences

Penguin??Books

A new form of government is sweeping across America: the initiative process, available in half the states and hundreds of cities. Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters decide directly on such explosive issues as drugs, affirmative action, casino gambling, assisted suicide, and human rights. Ostensibly driven by public opinion, the initiative process is, in reality, manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas. In this highly controversial book David Broder tells how this revolution came about. A movement that started with Proposition 13 in California is now a multimillion-dollar business in which lawyers, campaign consultants, signature gatherers, and advertising agencies sell their expertise to interest groups or to do-gooders with private agendas. Broder takes the reader into the heart of these battles as he talks with the field operatives, lobbyists, PR spinners, labor leaders, and business executives, all of whom can manipulate the political process. A James H. Silberman Book

Democracy Derailed: The Initiative Movement and the Power of Money

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Now in paperback, how initiatives are remaking our democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics. Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters in half the states and hundreds of cities decide directly on such explosive issues as drugs, affirmative action, casino gambling, assisted suicide, and human rights. Ostensibly driven by public opinion, the initiative process is far too often manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas. In this highly controversial book, David Broder, the "dean of American political journalism" (Brill's Content), explains how a movement that started with Proposition 13 in California is now a multimillion-dollar business in which lawyers, campaign consultants, signature gatherers, and advertising agencies sell their expertise to interest groups with private agendas. With a new afterword updating the results of the most recent elections and discussing the potential for future initiatives, Broder takes the reader into the heart of these battles as he talks with the field operatives, lobbyists, PR spinners, labor leaders, and business executives, all of whom can manipulate the political process.

Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money

Mariner Books

In a blow-by-blow account of an epic political battle, two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors describe in detail how "the system" has corrupted America's political institutions and provide a deeply disturbing analysis of today's government. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point

Self-Help

JOHNSON, Haynes

Motivational

Little,Brown & Co

The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle (Teach Yourself)

Woodward, Bob.

Biographies & Memoirs

Hodder & Stoughton Educational Division

The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, looks at how the press handled various political stories of the seventies, and discusses the ethical issues faced by journalists

Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the News Is Made

Science & Math

Simon&Schuster

The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, looks at how the press handled various political stories of the seventies, and discusses the ethical issues faced by journalist

BEHIND THE FRONT PAGE

Touchstone

Behind the Front Page

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