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So Damn Much Money:

The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
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Random House Digital, Inc., Feb 9, 2010 - Political Science - 432 pages
With a New Foreword

In So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging the country’s best citizens from serving in office. Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our political system through the colorful story of Gerald S. J. Cassidy, one of Washington’s most successful lobbyists. Superbly told, it’s an illuminating dissection of a political system badly in need of reform.
  

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Great read, well researched. - Goodreads
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A dear friend sent me this book so I felt compelled to read it, if for no other reason than to delve deeper into my friend's inner being. I'm not normally a non-fiction reader, but I read this one and ... Read full review

Review: So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government

User Review  - Michael - Goodreads

Traces the rise of lobbying in DC through an in depth profile of Cassidy & Associates and a bigger picture analysis of trends. The Cassidy narrative I didn't find particularly interesting. But I ... Read full review

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Contents

A Scandal for Our Time
3
Looking Down on the Capitol
25
The Art of SelfInvention
33
A Washington That Worked
52
A New Kind of Business
64
Corrupt or Correct?
82
Earmarks Become Routine
98
A Grea t Awaken ing
114
Tricks of the Lobbying Trade
183
The New Technology of Politics
197
Disorder in the House
204
Influencing Policy for Profit
226
Public Service Private Rewards
250
Cash Cow on the Potomac
274
1 Elections Bought and Sold
290
chapter 2? Hard Times
319

A Marriage Unravels
124
Would That Be Proper?
132
1 A Money Machine
152
Disaster Averted
165
A Corroded Culture
341
Epilogue
361
Index 387
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About the author (2010)

ROBERT G. KAISER has been with The Washington Post since 1963. He has reported on the House and Senate; was a correspondent in Saigon and Moscow; served as national editor, then managing editor; and is now associate editor and senior correspondent. He has also written for Esquire, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Review of Books. His books include Russia: The People and the Power; So Damn Much Money; and, with Leonard Downie Jr., The News About the News. He has received an Overseas Press Club award and a National Press Club award, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He has also been a commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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