# The System

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- Authors: [Haynes Johnson](https://www.bookquiver.com/haynes-johnson), [David S. Broder](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-s-broder)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1998-01-15

## Description

The authors show in detail how 'The System' has corrupted America's political institutions. They take as an example the Clinton health care reform initiative - the most ambitious call for US government action since the 1960s. Granted exclusive and unprecedented access to closed-door meetings by Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senators Bob Dole, Edward Kennedy and Newt Gingrich amongst others and using these meetings and the health care plan the authors give a blow by blow destruction of a policy that aimed to please everybody and ended by satisfying no-one due to special interstate pressure groups, party political bickering, political gamesmanship and the sheer inertia of the American 'system'.

## Editions

### The System

- Publisher: little_brown_us
- ISBN: 978-03-1611-145-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1998-01-15
- Language: en_GB