Nothing Bill Clinton talked about in the 1992 campaign so typified his vision as his popular plan to let Americans wipe out college loans by serving their communities. Then he came to Washington. In The Bill, one of Newsweek's hottest reporters shows in vivid detail how the adventures of Clinton's National Service Bill reveals what is corrupt, comic, cynical and noble about Washington.
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Nothing Bill Clinton talked about in the 1992 campaign so typified his vision as his popular plan to let Americans wipe out college loans by serving their communities. Then he came to Washington. In The Bill, one of Newsweek's hottest reporters shows in vivid detail how the adventures of Clinton's National Service Bill reveals what is corrupt, comic, cynical and noble about Washington.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xiii, [5], 301 pages. Cast of Characters. Flowchart. Notes. Index. Signed by author. Waldman, national correspondent for "Newsweek, " chronicles the journey of the National Service Bill. His inside view provides a look at how Washington really works; from Clinton's presidential style, to the inner working of Capitol Hill. Derived from a Kirkus review: A nifty case study of the trail--from policy idea to law--of the bill that established the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, the program known as AmeriCorps. Waldman, a national correspondent for Newsweek, decided to adapt the magazine's "inside story" approach to presidential races and apply it to an examination of one campaign promise. He chose national service because he thought it typified Clinton's vision and tested his "expansive idealism and aggressive pragmatism." Waldman's thorough narrative of the process profiles policy aides, lobbyists, and bureaucrats to show how pressure and politics, more than logic, shaped the final bill. The centrist Democratic Leadership Council had long advocated a required national service that would be a civilian analogue of the military draft. But candidate Clinton proposed a service corps made up of volunteers who would receive college-tuition aid. The mix of service and reward, of community obligation and governmental activism, stirred campaign audiences, but the proposal got little scrutiny. Clinton wanted a $9.4 billion program over five years, but he ended up with a $1.5 billion program over three years after the bill went through a mix of interests, including banks, students, unions, and veterans. Congressional debate, the author notes, focused on whether loans should be directed through universities rather than on the more complex issue of how long students should make percentage-of-income repayments. Waldman deplores the follies involved but still finds the proposal a rare, even noble, federal endeavor. A lively tale of early Clintonism.
