Naked Emperors
Subtitle: The Failure of the Republican Revolution
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: February 25, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780742558816
Subjects: U.S. Congress (General); U.S. Political Parties; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Political Process - Political Parties; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism; Government - Legislative Branch; History & Theory - General; 1993-2001; Conservatism; Political ethics; Politics and government; United States
First sentence: History, like life, is a collection of choices and their consequences.
Description: From book flap:

Naked Emperors: The Failure of the Republican Revolution takes its place alongside “All the President’s Men” and the novel “Advise and Consent” as a timeless classic about how Washington really works.  It is a vivid and gripping eyewitness account about how the Republican Party failed in making government ethical and open. In the wake of the historic elections of 1994, there were great expectations that the new Republican majority would end congressional corruption while introducing twenty-first-century business practices to the most antiquated and dysfunctional of institutions.

The book follows the story to present day, including how the rise in corruption impacted the 2006 elections and will affect the 2008 campaign. The final chapters describe how the current wave of scandals arose from a well-entrenched system breeding power and greed inside the Capital Beltway. It concludes with a provocative solution that will inspire readers to challenge current governmental institutions and reinvent American democracy in the twenty-first century. The author weaves this into a suspenseful tale full of plot twists and multidimensional characters.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chapter 17 - Full Circle