DEMOCRACY DERAILED The Initiative Movement and the Power of Money

BRODER, DAVID S.

ISBN 10: 0151004641 / ISBN 13: 9780151004645

Published by HARCOURT.;.JAMES H. SILBERMAN BOOK, 2000

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VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S23.00) DUST JACKET; Gold titles on brown spine strip.dark yellow hard covers.DJ has title on white paper.Author photo inner back dj flap.WASHINGTON POST WRITER. ; 256 pages; 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEMOCRACY DERAILED The Initiative Movement and the Power of Money
• Publisher: HARCOURT.;.JAMES H. SILBERMAN BOOK
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151004641
• ISBN 13: 9780151004645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: first edition,1p; ACEGIJFDB.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist offers an analysis of the political initiative process, which began with California's Proposition 13 and which involves citizens voting directly on new laws, arguing that this process has been manipulated by the lobbyists and big money.

About the Author

David S. Broder, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter and columnist, writers twice weekly for the Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 300 newspapers. He is a regular on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN's Inside Politics, and PBS's Washington Week in Review. He grew up in Chicago Heights, Illinois, and worked on the Bloomington (illinois) Pantagraph, Congressional Quarterly, the Washington Star, and the New York Times before joining the Post in 1966. He has covered every presidential election campagin since 1960. He is the author or coauthor of six previous books, most recetnly The Sysyten and the best-seller, Changing of the Guard. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.