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Hoisting the flag of waste and abuse, the author, a former newspaperman, issues a clarion call. He takes the reader deep inside a tiny Washington, D.C., foundation that has managed to have its copyrighted code of conduct enshrined in federal and state law. All 50 states, even the U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, now enforce it. The nonprofit has parlayed the arrangement into a lucrative publishing cartel with top officers and favored trustees jet-setting to Europe and Asia. Stateside, the group hosts officials of an obscure federal agency in winter playgrounds like Pasadena, Scottsdale and West Palm Beach. The agency wet-nurses the nonprofit with guaranteed public grants topping $1 million some years. The author interweaves vivid scene-setting and thoughtful analysis with the surprising comments of stone-honest civil servants, double-talking careerists and anonymous fixers deep in the plumbing of state and federal government. On his journey, the author is jolted by an epiphany.
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THE AUTHOR, A COG in a profession sputtering and wheezing after decades of chaotic regulation, tracks down the head of an obscure Washington, D.C., foundation. The nonprofit has managed to have its copyrighted code of standards enshrined in federal and state law. All 50 states, even the tiny U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, now enforce the nonprofit's standards and criteria. But on the journey, the author is jolted by an epiphany about America's past and future. He discovers a growing and uncharted reliance on a little-known practice called "incorporation by reference," which is quietly privatizing the law. Jeremy Bagott is also author of "Guaconomics: Dipping a Chip into America's Besieged Party Bowl" and "The Compact Real Estate Appraiser." His columns have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Washington Post, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the National Review Online and the McClatchy newspapers in California's Central Valley.
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