The deep state : the fall of the constitution and the rise of a shadow government

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The deep state : the fall of the constitution and the rise of a shadow government

Title remainder

the fall of the constitution and the rise of a shadow government

Statement of responsibility

Mike Lofgren

Creator

• Lofgren, Mike

Author

• Lofgren, Mike

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
• Bureaucracy -- United States
• Power (Social sciences) -- Political aspects -- United States
• United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• Political culture -- United States
• Business and politics -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"An acerbic, no holds barred indictment of business as usual in Washington, DC--where our elected leaders provide a fig leaf for those who really hold the levers of power--by a 28-year veteran of the Hill, the bestselling author of The Party Is Over Have you ever noticed that behind all the mud-slinging and invective there isn't much difference between the parties? For all of his big talk and promises of change, Obama is basically Bush lite. And Hillary--or Jeb--will be more of the same. We spend ten times more on the political circus leading up to elections than any other country, but what are we getting for all of that money? The truth, as Mike Lofgren reveals in this devastating takedown of beltway business, is that our elected leaders provide a fig leaf for those who really hold the levers of power, the unelected functionaries of our ever-growing bureaucracies who decide America's defense, intelligence, and foreign policy and the corporate titans who control them. If it sounds like House of Cards it's because there is more truth to that than you might care to believe. Mike Lofgren draws on his three decades on the Hill to take you behind the scenes and map out where ower is really held in Washington, in the bowels of what he calls "the deep state.""--

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Dewey number

320.973

Index

index present

LC call number

JK1726

LC item number

.L59 2016

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography