An edition of Arrogant capital (1994)

Arrogant capital

Washington, Wall Street, and the frustration of American politics

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An edition of Arrogant capital (1994)

Arrogant capital

Washington, Wall Street, and the frustration of American politics

1st 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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Language
English
Pages
231

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Arrogant capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the frustration of American politics
1995, Back Bay Books
in English - 1st pbk. ed.
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Arrogant capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the frustration of American politics
1994, Little, Brown and Co.
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.973
Library of Congress
JK2249 .P48 1994, JK2249.P48 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 231 p. ;
Number of pages
231

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1086118M
Internet Archive
arrogantcapitalw00phil
ISBN 10
0316706183
LCCN
94010035
OCLC/WorldCat
30071074
Library Thing
1051317
Goodreads
693545

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