The Ruling Class: Inside the Imperial Congress [Hardcover]

Eric Felten (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 1993

Go buy and read Mr. Felten's book, which is pithy, well-written and more certain than a Stephen King novel to keep you awake at night. --The Washington Times

Product Details

• Hardcover: 237 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition (March 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895265060
• ISBN-13: 978-0895265067
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,142,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A REAL Education on the workings of the U.S. Congress, July 28, 2011

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This review is from: The Ruling Class: Inside the Imperial Congress (Paperback)

Many folks have no clue on what happens in the Congress. They hear of legislation being considered that affects their lives, but are totally unaware that most of it is being generated by UNELECTED Bureaucrats! This book opens lid to the Pandora's Box called Congress!

4.0 out of 5 stars I wish this 18-year-old book were more out of date, March 29, 2011

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This review is from: The Ruling Class: Inside the Imperial Congress (Hardcover)

This book was published in 1993 highlighting some serious problems with the way that Congress runs and suggesting some much-needed reforms. The Republicans took over the House in the following election promising reform. Twelve years later the Democracts took Congress back promising reform. This seventeen-year-old book should be seriously out of date by now. A couple things have been done but, unfortunately, Congress is still in dire need of the sorts of reform called for here. One of the points that seems obvious once you see it is that modern legislators hate to legislate. They and their staffs are more focused on "casework" which really amounts to securing votes by protecting voters one at a time from the depredations of the bureaucrats to whom Congress delegated its own Constitutional responsibility of writing the laws. One thing that is unfortunately dated about the book is that the dire-sounding talk about the 1993-levels of debt involve numbers that seem quaintly small in a post-TARP/stimulus/Obamacare context. A quick and enlightening read.