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'What differentiates good patronage from bad patronage? Marty and Sue Tolchin's book lays it all out for the interested voter.' - Ed Koch
List of contents
1. The Only Way to Run a Government 2. Patronage Politics at the Grass Roots 3. Statehouse Patronage 4. Congress: The Mother Lode 5. Justice on eBay 6. Presidential Patronage 7. Pinstripe Patronage: Outsourcing Government 8. Harbinger of Change
About the author
Martin Tolchin capped a forty-year career at The New York Times, where he reported on Congress and politics, by becoming founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Hill newspaper. He also was the founding senior publisher and editor of Politico. He is now a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Susan J. Tolchin is Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and the author of The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation (Westview Press, 1996 and 1998), and Women in the U.S. Congress, among several other books. Together the Tolchins have written seven previous books, most recently, A World Ignited: How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and Glass Houses: Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom (Westview Press, 2009-new in paperback).
Summary
'What differentiates good patronage from bad patronage? Marty and Sue Tolchin's book lays it all out for the interested voter.' - Ed Koch
