Buying of Congress: Ho H

by Charles Lewis and Center for Public Integrity

You cannot shop at the local supermarket or drugstore, visit a hospital emergency room, watch television, pay your taxes, or even breathe the air outside your home without being directly affected by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380975963
• ISBN13: 9780380975969
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 19 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent how-to manual!

In life, you're either predator or prey. Why break the law pillaging outright? That's for suckers! You can use the law for legal plunder! Congress gets a million blank checks that the taxpayer will eventually be forced to pay. As long as you cut your representatives in on a piece of the action, you can steal millions! I'm kind of late getting started. I just hope that I can get some kind of no-bid or cost-plus contract before the system totally collapses...

Best of its type. Made my blood boil. And I'm not naive

My topic line says it all. We've all heard and followed the stories about how Congress is beholden to special interests, and how they have in turn done favors for various industries in return. However, this book puts it all together in a way that has really upset me. And yet it is not a sensational cheap book. Per the Acknowledgements section of page 351 ff, it was a huge team project of the Center For Public Integrity involving 10 writers and 25 researchers. And the Center has written and published a number of books during the past 8 years, so they didn't start fresh in researching the topics covered.

Congress would like to burn this book.

The book should be distributed to all high school and college students as an introduction to the world of realpolitik. Given the sodden apathy of American adults, it may be that our only hope for radical change lies in their children.