Volume 42, Number 1 · January 12, 1995
The Republican Promise
By James Fallows
Contract With America
House Republican Conference, Washington, DC
On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency
by Drew Elizabeth
Simon and Schuster, 462 pp., $24.00
Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics
by Kevin Phillips
Little, Brown, 231 pp., $22.95
The Politics of the High-Wage Path: The Challenge Facing Democrats
by Ruy A. Teixeira
Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC, Working Paper 110 pp.
On September 27, the House Republican Conference—which has imposed on Republicans in Congress more ideological unity through their years as the minority party than the Democrats have had in ages—issued its tensection 'Contract' as a joint campaign platform for Republican candidates across the country. For the next forty-one days this fall, the 'Contract With America' was viewed by most commentators in official Washington as a strategic mistake.
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