Product Description: Money greases the wheels of American politics from the local level to the White House. In the 2004 presidential campaign, President George W. Bush alone raised nearly $400 million in private and public funds—nearly twenty times the combined total raised by John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960—to defeat challenger John F...read more

Reprinted from magazines, newspapers, and other popular media, twenty-seven articles provide a range of views on the history of campaign finance in the United States. (view table of contents)