Governing by Campaigning: The Politics of the Bush Presidency, 2007 Edition (Great Questions in Politics Series)

by George C. Edwards III

In this brief book, George Edwards, one of the foremost experts on the presidency and author of "Why the Electoral College is Bad for America," explores how the Bush administration has attempted... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205529623
• ISBN13: 9780205529629
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

was Bush worse than Clinton in this respect?

Well, if you are a Democrat, reading this book will only reinforce your already negative opinion of the Bush administration. Edwards depicts a governing style that is obsessively poll-driven, and in some ways indistinguishable from when Bush was running for president. But in fairness to Bush, when Bill Clinton was president, his administration was regularly derided as also being poll-driven. Maybe the current US system requires a successfully elected president to take such an approach. So a related take on this book is that it only enhances cynicism about the system.