num_pages: 231
description: Washington -- mired in bureaucracy, captured by the money power of Wall Street, and dominated by 90,000 lobbyists, 60,000 lawyers, and the largest concentration of special interests the world has ever seen -- has become the albatross that our Founding Fathers a swollen capital city feeding off the country it should be governing. Using history as a chilling warning, Kevin Phillips compares the paralysis in today's Washington to that of formerly mighty and arrogant capitals like Rome and Madrid. Unchecked, Washington will -- like other great powers before it -- lead the country to its inevitable decline and fall. Kevin Phillips's unique blueprint for a revolution in politics and government puts Washington on notice and sounds a cry for immediate action, offering a wide variety of remedies -- some quasi-revolutionary, others more moderate, but all controversial.
language: English
title: Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustration of American Politics
titlecomplete: Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustration of American Politics
genres: Economics, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 44
publisher: DIANE Publishing Company