Crisis Point: Why We Must - and How We Can - Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America

Crisis Point: Why We Must - and How We Can - Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America

Crisis Point: Why We Must - and How We Can - Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America

Crisis Point: Why We Must - and How We Can - Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America

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Overview

"An astute case for a model of public service that is professional and principled, attributes that distinguished [Lott and Daschle's] former service." —The Wall Street Journal

With a new afterword on the 2016 election

Trent Lott and Tom Daschle, two of the most prominent senators of recent time, served as leaders of their respective parties from the 1990s to the current century. Their congressional tenure saw the Reagan tax cuts, the Clinton impeachment, 9/11, and the Iraq War. Despite stark ideological differences, the two have always maintained a positive working relationship—even a warm friendship—the kind that in today's hyper-partisan climate has become unthinkable.

In Crisis Point, Lott and Daschle come together to sound an alarm on the current polarization that has made governing all but impossible; never before has faith in government been so dismally low. The senators itemize damaging forces—the permanent campaign, unprecedented money, the 24/7 news cycle—and offer practical recommendations, pointing the way forward. Most crucially, they recall the American people, especially our leaders, to the principles enshrined in the Constitution, and to the necessity of debate but also the imperative of compromise—which will take vision and courage to bring back.

Illustrated with personal stories from their eminent careers and events cited from deeper in American history, Crisis Point is an invaluable work—one of conscience as well as duty, written with passion and eloquence by two men who have dedicated their lives to public service and share the conviction that all is far from lost.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780594677215
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 01/19/2016
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, co-founder of the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, and Senior Counsel at Squire Patton Boggs. Herding Cats is his political memoir.

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is the founder and CEO of The Daschle Group. He co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center and serves as Chair of the Center for American Progress Board of Directors. His books include Like No Other Time, on the 107th Congress, and Critical, on the health care crisis.


Jon Sternfeld is a writer and editor living in New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Introduction 1

Part I Conflict

Chapter 1 The 228-Year Argument 9

Chapter 2 The Pulling 17

Chapter 3 The Permanent Campaign 25

Chapter 4 Down in the Well 35

Chapter 5 The Media Effect 51

Part II Chemistry

Chapter 6 A Nation of Men and Women 65

Chapter 7 The 50-50 Senate 75

Chapter 8 Roadblocks to Chemistry 83

Chapter 9 Experience and Transparency 91

Part III Leadership

Chapter 10 In Their Own Words 101

Chapter 11 The Leadership Hole 111

Chapter 12 Trent and Tom 121

Chapter 13 The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton 129

Chapter 14 The World at Large 139

Chapter 15 Leader of the Free World 147

Chapter 16 The Center of the Storm 157

Chapter 17 9/11 and Its Aftermath 167

Chapter 18 The Humility and the Audacity 179

Chapter 19 Courage and Memory in the United States Senate 193

Chapter 20 Fear and Loathing in the U.S. Congress 201

Part IV Vision

Chapter 21 Writing the Future 207

Chapter 22 A Bipartisan Answer 213

Chapter 23 Electoral and Campaign Reform 217

Chapter 24 The Money Problem 225

Chapter 25 Congressional Reform 233

Chapter 26 A Call to Service 243

Conclusion: Duty 257

Acknowledgments 261

Notes 262

Index 276

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