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The Power Game: How Washington Works, by Hedrick Smith (Random House, 793 pp., $22.50)

When a journalist writes an eight-hundred-page book that isn’t straight narrative, you expect muddle. Hedrick Smith’s The Power Game: How Washington Works provides it. It’s well organized but ill conceived, covering very little of Washington’s real terrain (only sparse mention of the Supreme Court, for example). It focuses mostly on Congress and the Presidency.

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The Power Game: How Washington Works, by Hedrick Smith (Random House, 793 pp., $22.50)

When a journalist writes an eight-hundred-page book that isn’t straight narrative, you expect muddle. Hedrick Smith’s The Power Game: How Washington Works provides it. It’s well organized but ill conceived, covering very little of Washington’s real terrain (only sparse mention of the Supreme Court, for example). It focuses mostly on Congress and the Presidency.