Item #10508 The Triumph of Politics Why The Reagan Revolution Failed. David A. Stockman.

The Triumph of Politics Why The Reagan Revolution Failed

Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1987. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 6.25"x9.5". 654 pages. X-library w/graphics. Red cloth boards w/purple metallic letters on spine. 16 pt. Pantin. DJ design by One & One Studio. Jacket photo by Annie Liebovitz. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. DJ pasted to inside book covers. Collectible - VeryGood / Near Fine. Item #10508
ISBN: 0816142319

Despite the powerful mandate given to the President by the American people, his program faces increasing difficulties as it encounters bedrock political realities. Even those members of Congress who favor spending cuts in principle hastily vacate the battlefield when this conflicts with powerful demands of their own constituencies. Eventually Stockman, the revolutionary, is forced to accept the reality that his theories, which looked so convincing on paper, have been based on a profound misjudgment about the American political system.
Far more than any journalist's expose, The Triumph of Politics is an insider's revelation of what happens when a radical ideology backed by the power of the Presidency runs headlong into the world of personal rivalries and special interests and ignores our continuous national tradition of accommodation and compromise. In telling this story David Stockman has created a work without parallel. Goodreads 3.80.

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