with mountains of eye-opening research, this rollicking call to arms breaks the issue into manageable, kitchen-table topics and makes it accessible with graphs, tables, sidebars, quizzes, and fascinating factoids. " Sifry and Watzman lay it all out with no bark on it in this devastatingly straight-forward book– the overt corruption of our country through what we politely call ‘ the campaign finance system.’ Legalized bribery is the root of our political rot and few people know more about how to fix it and have done more to fix it than the good folks at Public Campaign." – Molly Ivins, author of Bushwhacked " Sifry and Watzman are two of the most astute observers political influence in this country. Their important new book names names and cuts through the bull about the issues that affect our daily lives, in a wonderfully amusing but drop-deadaccurate way!" – Charles Lewis, author of The Buying of the President 2004