Balancing Act Washington's Troubled Path to a Balanced Budget

Name: Balancing Act Washington's Troubled Path to a Balanced Budget
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ISBN: 9780679756071

ISBN-10: 0679756078

ISBN-13: 9780679756071

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Authors: George Hager, Eric Pianin

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"A compelling book on budget-balancing, past and present. Not only is it a useful historical reference work but it is amazingly relevant to today's headlines." --Business Week Why did it take twenty-five years to balance the federal budget? And why did that goal seem politically impossible up until the last possible moment? Why hasn't the nation achieved a single budget surplus since 1969? Why did the first Republican Congress since the 1950s fail so miserably to redeem its most important promise to voters? In Balancing Act, George Hager and Eric Pianin, two of the country's top political journalists, provide fascinating answers. The question of the deficit is the reigning obsession of…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English