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Arrogant Capital - Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
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Arrogant Capital - Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
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Everyone knows that Washington is completely out of touch with the
rest of the country. Now Kevin Phillips, whose bestselling books
have prophesied the major watersheds of American party politics,
tells us why. Washington - mired in bureaucracy, captured by the
money power of Wall Street, and dominated by 90,000 lobbyists,
60,000 lawyers, and the largest concentration of special interests
the world has ever seen - has become the albatross that Thomas
Jefferson and our other Founding Fathers feared: a swollen capital
city feeding off the country it should be governing. Throughout
most of our history, the genius of American politics was that
ballot revolutions every generation swept out failed establishments
and created new ones. Now that can no longer happen. Feared and
even hated by a majority of the citizenry, "Permanent Washington"
has dug in. Using history as a chilling warning, Kevin Phillips
parallels the present atrophy to that of formerly mighty and
arrogant capitals like Rome, Madrid, and Amsterdam. Unchecked,
Washington will - like other great powers before it - lead the
country to its inevitable decline and fall. To work again,
Washington must be purged and revitalized. In his unique blueprint
for a political upheaval, Kevin Phillips puts Washington on notice
by sounding a cry for immediate action, offering us a wide variety
of remedies - some quasi-revolutionary, others more moderate, but
all sure to be controversial.
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