Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustration of American Politics

Washington — mired in bureaucracy, captured by the money power of Wall Street, and dominated by 90,000 lobbyists, 60,000 lawyers, and the largest concentration of special interests the world has ever seen — has become the albatross that our Founding Fathers a swollen capital city feeding off the country it should be governing. Using history as a chilling warning, Kevin Phillips compares the paralysis in today’s Washington to that of formerly mighty and arrogant capitals like Rome and Madrid. Unchecked, Washington will — like other great powers before it — lead the country to its inevitable decline and fall. Kevin Phillips’s unique blueprint for a revolution in politics and government puts Washington on notice and sounds a cry for immediate action, offering a wide variety of remedies — some quasi-revolutionary, others more moderate, but all controversial.