Politics and Money: The New Road to Corruption

Not even with Nixon's Dow Chemical. Or Bebe Rebozo. But as Deep Throat moaned: "Follow the money!" The ever excellent Elizabeth Drew, fearless and respected investigative reporter in Washington DC, must always and everywhere get read. See for example her recent work Fear and Loathing in George W. Bush's Washington. At this price you cannot afford not to read her. No American can afford not to read her entire courageous opus and hope to achieve our representative democracy run by a moral and honest and just and open elect. Written in the overheated era of hand over fist corruption in the first Reagan administration, in 1983, as David Stockman finally blew the whistle on the fraud which was the Reaganomics he himself created as documented in Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed, Elizabeth Drew makes this meek but well-researched call for campaign financing reform, which would receive lukewarm attention only later under the Clinton Administration. Here Drew reveals the hand in glove operations of the federal legislative and executive branches under the firm control of big business corporations and other wealthy interests. Please read this book and see where we went wrong, and how we tried to fix it. A good buy at any price. Essential reading for any social studies student and for any citizen of these United States who wishes to understand why we waste so many billions of dollars to the purposefully incompetent Halliburton in the face of a failing yet endless policy.