Description Americans love to trash their politicians as corrupt and self-interested, but they don\'t agree on a solution.
He authored (with George Gilder) The Party That Lost its Head (published 1966), an indictment of the 1964 Goldwater campaign\'s abandonment of the civil rights issue and a call for "conservati.
Chapman was an editorial writer at The New York Herald Tribune.
In 1965/66 Mr.
At Harvard, he and George Gilder started a magazine, later moved to Washington, DC, called Advance: A Journal of Republican Thought.
Chapman attended public schools in Monmouth, Illinois and graduated from Harvard College, with honors, in 1962.
Born in Evanston, Illinois (December 1, 1940), Mr.
It critiques the growing power of unelected "middlemen" in politics--bureaucracy, media, academics and special interests-and the loss of responsibility by the people\'s elected representatives.
His latest book is Politicians: The Worst Kind of People to Run the Government, Except for All the Others (2018).
Chapman is an author and former elected and appointed official who is Chairman of the Board of Discovery Institute, a public policy think tank in Seattle.
About the Author Bruce K.
Republicans and Democrats alike, conservatives and liberals, have a stake in responding to the stirring and provocative challenge raised by this book.
Drawing on history as well as his own extensive experience in politics and public policy, Chapman challenges the conventional wisdom about politicians, arguing that their chief rivals-the media, bureaucrats, college professors, and even political "reform" groups-are often sources of further political demoralization rather than renewal.
How can America attract good leaders to the thousands of elective offices in the land? In Politicians: The Worst Kind of People to Run the Government, Except for All the Others, Bruce Chapman lays out a bold plan for the changes we need to make in our public life if we are serious about enabling worthy leaders to emerge and to succeed.
Description Americans love to trash their politicians as corrupt and self-interested, but they don\'t agree on a solution
