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The price of politics / Bob Woodward. |
| Authors: | Woodward, Bob, 1943- |
| Call number: | 330.973 WOO |
| Publisher: | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Budget -- United States.
Budget deficits -- United States. Fiscal policy -- United States. Government spending policy -- United States. United States -- Economic policy. United States -- Appropriations and expenditures, 2011. United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009- Obama, Barack. |
| Title: | The price of politics / Bob Woodward. |
| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
| Physical description: | xvii, 428 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Summary note: | "This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt."--Note to readers. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781451651102 1451651104 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1393073 |
| Bib No.: | 1393073 |