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Aug 27, 2013 · “A fast-moving, hard-hitting, dryly witty book-length account of the radicalization of the Republican party, the failures of Democratic rivals and the appalling consequences for the country at large. Like the essay that inspired it, The Party Is Over is forceful, convincing and seductive.” — The Washington Post
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Aug 2, 2012 · In "The Party Is Over" Mike Lofgren presents a very similar message to Joseph Stiglitz's "The Price of Inequality" and Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein's "It's Even Worse than It Looks." The difference is that Lofgren's perspective is from working as a Republican analyst on House and Senate budget committees for 28 years.
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Aug 2, 2012 · But The Party is Over is not just a long rant from a disgruntled former aide or a gossipy tell-all type of book. The Party is Over is an analysis of how Washington DC - and, thus, how the government as a whole - has changed over the last several decades and the most likely factors that facilitated the change.
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Mike Lofgren is the New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over. He spent twenty-eight years in Congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees. He has written for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico,….
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BUY THIS BOOK. The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted Mike Lofgren. Viking, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-02626-5.
Aug 2, 2012 · That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead. Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points ...
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Introduction. This book is about America’s broken political system: how it got that way, who benefits, and who loses. It is about the growing domination of the legislative process by corporate money and the corresponding decline of the idea of a broad public interest. It is about how politicians use intensely polarized ideological issues as ...
