Amazon.com Review
This book is an expanded version of an award-winning series of articles the structure of American government that ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele spent two years making detailed analysis of the IRS, Security Exchange Commission and other government agencies while paralleling the lives of men and women who jobs and lives were affected by trends in government and society. Problems in America, they argue, stem from the restructuring of the American economy to favor the very rich. The only way to repair this situation, the reporters contend, is "comprehensive changes in government laws and regulations on a scale of the sweeping legislative revisions of the 1930s." Does anyone care? The newspaper series was the most popular in the history of the Inquirer, generating 20,000 requests for reprints.
Review
The good news is that Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Steele have incisively and vividly defined the problem facing the nation, and proved again that there is an audience for a message that cannot be captured by a sound bite, a photo opportunity or even a bumper sticker. -- The New York Times Book Review, James D. Atwater
