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Details where campaign contributions are coming from for the 1996 presidential candidates and describes the role these donations play in American elections

Strategery is a term borrowed from a Saturday Night Live skit and self-deprecatingly adopted by the White House for their meetings. White House Correspondent Bill Sammon is borrowing it yet again in his latest account of this unlikely-yet historic-president. Strategery is written with verve and piercing insight by Sammon, who has been granted unprecedented access to President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their most senior advisers. No other journalist has interviewed the president more times than Sammon.

A political humorist investigates the important influence of presidential pets on Washington's domestic policy-making and international diplomacy, drawing on never-before-seen pet diaries to reveal what goes on behind closed doors in the White House. 35,000 first printing.

Presents the Buying of the President 2000 Project, an online complimentary resource to the book "The Buying of the President 2000," written by Charles Lewis and published by the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Offers access to candidate profiles, patron and donor lists, and related articles, as well as information about the candidates' travel and campaign finances.

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.