Power Game: How Washington Works

by Hedrick Smith

Overview

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith goes inside America's power center in Washington, DC to reveal how the game of governing was played in the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780345410481
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/29/1996
Pages:	816
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.17(h) x 1.34(d)

About the Author

Hedrick Smith is a bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, and Emmy Award–winning producer. His books The Russians and The Power Game were critically acclaimed bestsellers and are widely used in college courses today. As a reporter at The New York Times, Smith shared a Pulitzer for the Pentagon Papers series and won a Pulitzer for his international reporting from Russia in 1971–1974. Smith’s prime-time specials for PBS have won several awards for examining systemic problems in modern America and offering insightful, prescriptive solutions.

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1. The Presidency and the Power Float: Our Rotating Prime Ministers
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