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In terms of reader sex appeal, a prosaic title such as Financing Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1414 22nd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037; $4.50) is not, admittedly, a turn-on. Something like How You Can Profit from the Coming Nuclear Holocaust is more to current taste.

Nonetheless, this study of political finance and efforts to reform it is recommended fare for those who want to understand the drastic changes now occurring in our electoral system. Not that author Herbert Alexander, a leading expert on this subject and director of the Citizens’ Research Foundation, is ever less than perfectly objective. It’s simply that the thing, as he describes it, speaks all too plainly for itself.

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In terms of reader sex appeal, a prosaic title such as Financing Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1414 22nd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037; $4.50) is not, admittedly, a turn-on. Something like How You Can Profit from the Coming Nuclear Holocaust is more to current taste.

Nonetheless, this study of political finance and efforts to reform it is recommended fare for those who want to understand the drastic changes now occurring in our electoral system. Not that author Herbert Alexander, a leading expert on this subject and director of the Citizens’ Research Foundation, is ever less than perfectly objective. It’s simply that the thing, as he describes it, speaks all too plainly for itself.