The Price Of Politics

The Price of Politics takes the listener through the electric 44 days during the summer of 2011 with day-by-day, often h... (more)

The Price of Politics takes the listener through the electric 44 days during the summer of 2011 with day-by-day, often hour-by-hour accounts as the two, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, attempt a "grand bargain" to cut entitlement spending and increase tax revenue .... The Price of Politics shows why the grand bargain was never reached, and how the president, the speaker and the Congress settled for stopgap measures that delayed any serious deficit reduction until 2013. With extensive documentation and firsthand accounts, Woodward reveals how the broken relationship between the White House and Capitol Hill drove the U.S. economy to the edge of the fiscal cliff where it remains. (less)