Americans find it hard to rub along with their rulers. The present system of government, democratic as it seems, is no exception. The sheer size of government, its inertia, its capture by lobbyists, its narcissistic love of polling and soft money, are constantly under attack. These two books, one new, one rewritten in the light of the failed Ging-richian revolution of the mid-1990s, leap to the barricades again.
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