![]() ![]() Term Limits is a thriller from the front pages of our newspapers. To break the power of entrenched elites, he leads the nation on a grisly hunt. ![]() Pushed beyond his limits, one man takes on the establishment, the gun lobby, and corruption at the highest levels. Yet term limits have not led to a significant increase in citizen-legislators, she told the Subcommittee on the Constitution. Term Limits should be require reading for every new politician heading to Washington." Murder - week after week, month after month, across the country. Legislative term limits were expected to replace career politicians with so-called citizen legislators, according to University of Rochester political scientist Lynda Powell. "A deceptively easy read - given its thunderous message. "What I found particularly remarkable was how easily I found myself sympathizing with the 'villain', and how well-crafted and human was Powell's plea that we need to finally bring common sense back to our government and its approaches to critical problems facing the country and the world. By bringing the mind-boggling swirling mess that is Washington politics down to the level of one family's pain he held me glued to the page. To my mind, Powell has masterfully combined the timeliness of today's political intrigue with a gripping detective story/who-done-it. Having been a press officer for a US Senator for a number of years, I've had a front row seat to the inter workings of Capital Hill. Alan Steele Nicholson, Former Press Officer - US Senator Jacob Javitz, New York "Brilliant and timely political who-done-it. ![]()
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