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The Political Life of Medicare
by Jonathan Oberlander
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University of Chicago Press
"Crisply and engagingly written.....The Political Life of Medicare provides
readers with an informative, sometimes surprising, and always lively account
of the politics of this most significant government program."
-Andrea Louise Campbell, Harvard University, in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
"This book immediately takes its place as the best short monograph on
Medicare's political development, current status, and future prospects."
-Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia, in Perspectives on Politics
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Personal History
by Katharine Graham
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Pulitzer Prize Winner. An amazing book about Katharine Graham, The Washington Post, and the city she loved.
In lieu of an unrevealing Famous-People-I-Have-Known autobiography, the owner of the Washington Post has chosen to be remarkably candid about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage to the charismatic, manic-depressive Phil Graham, who ran the newspaper her father acquired. Katharine's account of her years as subservient daughter and wife is so painful that by the time she finally asserts herself at the Post following Phil's suicide in 1963 (more than halfway through the book), readers will want to cheer. After that, Watergate is practically an anticlimax. (Amazon.com)
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