| Weight | 0.66 kg |
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| ISBN | 9781451651102 |
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| Publication Date | 2012 |
| Pages | 428 |
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| Author Description | Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored or coauthored 18 books, all of which have been national non-fiction bestsellers. Twelve of those have been #1 national bestsellers. He has written books on eight of the most recent presidents, from Nixon to Obama. Bob Schieffer of CBS News has said, Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. |
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THE PRICE OF POLITICS
₨ 2,995
The Price of Politics “chronicles the inside story of how President Obama and the U.S. Congress tried, and failed, to restore the American economy and set it on a course to fiscal stability. It spans three and a half tumultuous years beginning just before Obama’s inauguration in early 2009 and lasting through the summer of 2012. Woodward once again pierces the secretive world of Washington policymaking, with a close-up story crafted from meeting notes, documents, working papers, and interviews with key players, including President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.
At the center of “The Price of Politics “is a high-stakes personal and political struggle between the president and the speaker. “The Price of Politics “takes the reader through the electric 44 days during the summer of 2011 with day-by-day, often hour-by-hour, accounts as the two attempt a “grand bargain” to cut entitlement spending and increase tax revenue. As they struggled through the most intense moments of the crisis, each contended with powerful conflicts in his party. At the prospect of serious budget cuts, Obama told Woodward, “Our friends on the left would howl and act as if we had dismantled the New Deal.” In the House, Boehner looked over his shoulder, worrying that his second-in-command, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, was undermining him in concert with extreme conservative House members and others with ties to the anti-tax Tea Party. At the same time, Boehner described the president as “moaning and groaning and whining and demanding. Threatening. He was pretty desperate.
ISBN: 9781451651102
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
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Author: BOB WOODWARD
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