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Getting a handle on the problem of federal spending is no easy task, precisely because the machinery of government has become so vast and labyrinthine. The average citizen has no idea of what is going on, and equally little idea of how to start finding out.

Happily, some industrious students of the public-policy process have done the necessary spadework to provide us with appropriate answers. United Press International reporter Donald Lambro, for one, has slogged through endless reams of documents and hours of interviews to produce an infuriating book he calls Fat City (Regnery/Gateway, 120 West LaSalle Ave., South Bend, Ind. 46601; $12.95). As the careful reader may have guessed, the city in question is Washington, D.C., and Lambro does a masterly job of proving that the label is deserved.

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Getting a handle on the problem of federal spending is no easy task, precisely because the machinery of government has become so vast and labyrinthine. The average citizen has no idea of what is going on, and equally little idea of how to start finding out.

Happily, some industrious students of the public-policy process have done the necessary spadework to provide us with appropriate answers. United Press International reporter Donald Lambro, for one, has slogged through endless reams of documents and hours of interviews to produce an infuriating book he calls Fat City (Regnery/Gateway, 120 West LaSalle Ave., South Bend, Ind. 46601; $12.95). As the careful reader may have guessed, the city in question is Washington, D.C., and Lambro does a masterly job of proving that the label is deserved.