Shadows of Hope: A Freethinker's Guide to Politics in the Time of Clinton - Hardcover

Smith, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253352843 ISBN 13: 9780253352842

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1994

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Getting beyond the public persona to explore the personal side of Bill Clinton's background and political career, the author details the cultural issues and areas affected by the current presidency.

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SAM SMITH is editor of the Progressive Review and has been an alternative journalist in Washington, D. C. for three decades. He was editor of the DC Gazette and one of the founders of the D. C. statehood movement. His book, Captive Capital: Colonial Life in Modern Washington (also published by Indiana University Press) is still regarded as a major source on non-federal Washington twenty years after its publication.

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The American political system has lost its magic. The vast majority of Americans no longer trust their government and feel helpless before forces which they can neither understand nor control. It is in this context that Sam Smith analyzes Bill Clinton's origins, performance, and frequently confusing and indecisive behavior. Smith sees Clinton as a product of our culture and a symptom of our illness. Everyone who cares about our country should read this iconoclastic and penetrating book. Chapters 1 and 2 deal with the campaign (especially the myths the Clintonites created about themselves and the failings of the press) and Clinton's first year in office (including the failed nominations, communication crises, and the budget debate). A comprehensive third chapter gives the first usable outline of Clintonism, describing the ideology that lies behind the president's contradictory statements, broken promises, mutating policies, and claims to rise above ideology. Chapters 4 and 5 first dissect the Washington system and its immutability and then, with numerous examples, show how the American political culture frequently opposes its own interests. A final chapter offers a new vision of how to bring American politics home, based on community, participatory politics, and a Congress which will more accurately reflect the country's demography and ethnic diversity.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253352843
• ISBN 13: 9780253352842
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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