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Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power, by John Harwood and Gerald F. Seib. When we think of backroom power in government we think of smoke-filled rooms and overweight men in bowlers vigorously pushing their own self-interest in an effort to get some piece of legislation that will add a tiny weight to the nation but accrete their own wealth on an astronomical scale. Harwood and Seib, journalists for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal respectively, show that our caricature image is not necessarily so. In small vignettes and biographies of such people as Karl Rove, Rahm Emanuel, and Ken Duberstein, we find out how backroom politics really works, and the players who operate in those backrooms. The authors contend that because of the heightened animosity between parties, it is in those backrooms that much of the work (both good and bad) of the nation gets done.
Read the Conservative Monitor extensive review of Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power.
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