Title

How to overthrow the government

Description

How to Overthrow the Government, is Huffington's call to arms; a challenge to the average American to seize the government back from the special interests that now hold it hostage and restore control to the people themselves. From campaign finance reform to new voters' rights to grassroots Internet activism and civil disobedience campaigns, she calls for fresh and radical solutions to this national crisis and offers a directory of local and national activist groups to contact that can help make it happen.--Jacket.

Identifier

860307

60393319

Creator

Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2000

Program air date: February 13, 2000

Publisher

ReganBooks

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Boydon Gray's party, Rush Limbaugh, Dick and Susan Armey. Bob Dole without clear vision. Columns criticizing Gingrich. Loyalty to friends is important but writing what you believe is impt. Speaking in "the 3rd person." "Royal we." CCC. Bob Schrum saw him at a friend's wedding. Gingrich-"hot air" p 200 /Mid 20s in London. Washington-Bill-way. Birthday greetings in fundraising politics, Jim Rogan, Cindy McCain, Jim Bunning p 106. ADM-Brokow/Lehrer/NPR p 120-Brinkley. Partnership for a Poll Free America-I launched w. Harry Shearer. Do you like John McCain-Camp Finance Reform. You quote Disraeli a couple of times p 146. Government by focus group-What do you mean. Polls should be relegated to the back of a newspaper. Dwayne Andreas-Ethand.Gingrich-and soon it was clear p 200, that for Gingrich, the revolution was an accounting exercise of balancing the budget and far more cynically a rhetorical exercise for amassing power. Lamb checked each section on the Contents pages. Notes on verso of p 318 and back free endpaper: Dennis Kucinich a case study in corruption p 148. Ratings are the ultimate news ethic. Ron Brown-ratings obsessed media. Donor anonymity--"donor bootle." Trent Lott-Hi my name is T.L. I'm a fundraisoholic. Corruption has crawled inside our political systems. Bob Dole Memorial to WWII vets p 216. Granny D. New Callousness-Judge Judy p 15. 38 lobbyists for each member of Congress. Elizabeth Dole-"I'm not a politician." "Donald Trump. Royal we--Orin Hatch. Follow the money--Bob Livingston p 49. Jimmy Carter vs. Jerry Ford. The quest for leaders. Internet--voting, raising money. Voter's right-motor voter, third parties, limited access to debate. Clinton-Steph-We wanted debates to be a non event. Notes/Underlinings: "Shrum," "e-mails," "35 million [in poverty]," lobbyists," "18-24 year group," "college," "personal debt," "child poverty," "Reagan," "Cuomo," "the poor," "Greenspan, sharp reversals," "welfare reform," "Jim Wassis," "lie," "Vietnam/Watergate,""Kosovo," "Liddy Dole," "Bud Shuster," "138 former members," "revolving door," "12 government giveaways,""gas bagging," "polls," "De Gaulle," "Ventura," "Zogby," "response rates are lower," "listening," "Gore and healthcare," "Who," "campaign letters," "copies on Internet," "Jim Rogan," "B-Day," "fund raiser," "McCain $63," "Wilson on Dole," "Mafia," "Pat B demagogue," "hostile takeover," "minimum sentencing," "Gore," "Tony Coelho," "Jesse Ventura," "DNC," "Bulworth," "Eli Lilly," "children," "historic conference," "13.7 million?" "my columns," "Mark Green," "Bob Dole," "17,000 sales reps," "pets 1 Bil.," "charisma," "Disraeli novels," "Geo. W. Bush, drugs," "Bush," "Jesse Jackson," "courage," "McCain," "Bill Bradley," "voting," "prescription drugs," "Dean Ornish," "Joe Lieberman," "prayer," "Havel," "Jimmy Carter," "charitable contributions," "Cornel West," "Colin Powell," "Gingrich hot air, cynical," "in favor gun control," "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend," "Nameless vets," "Gibbon," "civil rights struggle," "TR," "100 men," "own a pol.," "Do Little Bill," "donor booth," "media," "Juanita Broaddrick," "Anita Hill," "poverty line," "MN 61%," "OK, N.C., Ga.," "debates," "farce," "wrong," "2 parties," "NOTA ads," "pollsters," "Net," "15% want political news," "cash on Internet," "Internet TV," "MoveOn.org," "online voting," "so cynical." Underlinings: Disillusion with American political system/campaigns. Details on campaigns of Dole, Gingrich, Chris Dodd, etc. Need for/ideas for reform.

Subject

"Political participation--United States."

"Civil society--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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