Why You Can’t Beat City Hall

At Washington, D.C.

So, Mr. Smith, you’ve just come to Washington. What do you do next? What can you do next? After fifty interviews and six months of investigating, the author concludes: Not much

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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At Washington, D.C.

So, Mr. Smith, you’ve just come to Washington. What do you do next? What can you do next? After fifty interviews and six months of investigating, the author concludes: Not much