This book was great! I really enjoyed it! It was easy to follow, and not confusing! The book kept you in suspense, and you had no idea what the ending was going to be! The basic plot was this: Nancy's friend George gets a photography job at the white house, and invites Nancy to visit her. During Nancy's first day, a gold hummingbird gets stolen, while Nancy is unconcious. Most of the main characters in the story (not including Nancy or George) have good motives for stealing the hummingbird. It's up to Nancy Drew to find the thief, but just as everything is going well, the ambassador is kidnapped...

This book is very clever, with a twist at the end! If you love mysteries, you'll love this book!

I think the Case of the Capital Intruige was very interesting. In it, George has taken a job as a photographer's assistant. Nancy and Bess assist her to DC for a vacation. Little do they know, Nancy runs into a mystery. First, a sacred statue is stolen, and Nancy must face dangers to get it back. But then, the embassador is kidnapped- and in an extremely exciting mystery filled with clues, codes, and dangers, Nancy solves another page-turning mystery. I think any mystery-lover would enjoy reading this Nancy Drew mystery.

Nancy Drew is going to the White House to see her friend George Fayne. George is a photographer at the White House. George is a girl. George wanted Nancy to come and stay for a little while to see her photographing. Nancy ends up having to investagate a few things. George gets sick and Nancy wants to think in George's office. Nancy hears a person right outside the door and sees a shadow. She burts out of the door without thinking and into the elevator when she feels a hand on her leg. It isn't who Nancy suspects it is at all.

I just finished this book and enjoyed it immensely. Drew provides a fly-on-the-wall account of the early Clinton years with breathtaking depth. With the benefit of a few years' hindsight, her analysis and perceptions at the time were spot-on. Highly recommended for political junkies and people interested in the inner workings of the White House.

I consulted this book for background on how the administration handled the Bosnian war and got swept into it. Drew is an outstanding writer, and her style is reminiscent of Bob Woodward's.

This presents a full account of Clinton and his aides, their battles, their personalities, etc. Clinton definitely had a rough going early on...it's hard to believe he stayed so popular all along.

Anyway, if you like Woodward's stuff (All the President's Men, Commanders, the Brethren, etc.), you'll find this very interesting. I am sure we will see more good things from Drew again.

Elizabeth Drew has brought years of experience and contact work to the effort to cast light behind one of the most conflict-ridden periods in recent American politics. Parting the curtains of public affairs rhetoric and the pap spoon-fed to the nightly news shows, she shows the reader both the hard policy considerations and the fragile egos at play in the 1994-1995 battles between Bill Clinton's White House and Newt Gingrich's House of Representatives. Two caveats: 1) for political junkies only; if you don't eat, breathe and sleep political intrigue, you ain't gonna care; 2) the editor could have done a little better job of smoothing Drew's dry journalistic style into a somewhat more flowing and readable narrative.

Ok, I admit it; I am a political junky and a bit of a liberal. I will tend to read anything political and probably enjoy it. With that being said here is another book of his that I will profess to really enjoying. This author has been writing these type of book sense the early 70's and you can tell she has it down cold. She has so many contacts that many times in reading the book you could swear she has the Congress and White House bugged. This book follows the Ginrich contract with American process and how it effects the Clinton team through the second two years that they are in office. You get all the standard Drew items with the book, great details, wonderful he said - she said conversations that really make you feel like a fly on the wall, an easy to follow and well laid out book.

I have read the book "The Agenda" and "The Choice" by Woodward and this book is a nice book in the middle of the two. If you through in "All Too Human" that George Stephanopoulos wrote and you have an excellent view of the first four years of the Clinton Presidency. This is an interesting book that I really enjoyed. If you like political books then you will like this book, if you are interested in the second two years of the Clinton presidency then this is also a good source of information.

Overall, I like Drew's book, but you have to take it for what it is. She is a mainstream Beltway journalist, so her notions of "reform" are, frankly, lacking -- too little, too late. The problems of the American government run far deeper than Drew and others like her can probably comprehend. If you believe McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform will reform campaign finance, then prepare to be awed by this book; if you don't, then you won't.

That said, Drew does a fantastic job portraying the culture of cash and corruption in the government, particularly Congress. Her writing is clear, entertaining, and informative. What's more, what she portrays is all the more alarming because of her mainstream background. Reading this book, it doesn't take much imagination to realize that things are truly running amok in Washington, to an extent most Americans cannot dream of.

So, read this book to get a vivid sense of what is going wrong, but not as a guidebook for how to bring democracy back to America.

I have enjoyed reading this authors work in the past so I was interested to see what she did with this topic. I was not disappointed with the book, but I felt that the title and dust jacket description was misleading. The book is presented as going to be a history sense Nixon as to the steady decline in American politics. What the book delivered is some history, but basically a complete review of the Fred Thompson 1996 campaign financing hearings and the President Clinton Impeachment process. With this said I was not disappointed because the author is great at adding interesting insights into the personalities of the House and Senate members she talks about. Many descriptions could be called biting, she does not side step comments that could be considered non-politically correct. She also goes after everyone involved, I have heard that some people think she is a bit liberal in her views but judging by the comments she makes on Clinton et all I was hard pressed to find the liberal soft spot.

Overall she gives a very good analysis of the current state of American politics, which comes down to one thing - it takes lots of money to win. Unfortunately that means that the politicians we have spend a great amount of their time asking, begging and anything else to get money. I also found the discussion on the increase levels of partisan tactics to be very concerning. How can anything worth while get done in the current environment? Lastly she also dropped into the book interesting details of the rules of the House and Senate. Overall the book was interesting and well written.

Elizabeth Drew wrote this book about campaign finance reform in 1999, but unfortunately itÕs still relevant. For years, Drew has been one of the most level headed and non-partisan political writers around. ThereÕs not a bit of "spin" in her work. So when someone as calm and reasonable as this writer says that the politicians we have to day are less intelligent, less thoughtful and less ethical than the politicians of a generation ago, I take her very seriously. We all love to complain about politicians, but Drew obviously has a lot of respect for government and the people who once served in it. She doesnÕt engage in idle rhetoric. Drew argues that we have lousy people representing us because the need to constantly raise money has driven out of politics all but a handful of the best people, leaving us nothing but the dregs. Both houses of Congress are now stuffed with men (and a handful of women) who know more about money grubbing than they do about history, economics or public policy. And money influences not only the quality of the legislators, but the kind of issues that come before congress. Like John McCain, she insists that we canÕt use government to help solve any of our problems until we get control of the power money has over politicians. Right now "our" government simply doesnÕt belong to us. I wish there were more solutions offered here. Drew ends by reminding the reader of the importance of voting and writing to representatives. That doesnÕt seem to me nearly strong enough. There must be more we can do. But as a chronicle of the influence of money in contemporary politics, this book canÕt be beat.

For those of us who love modern political histories, this a very good book. It examines campaign finance in the real world, with highly detailed and researched insights into how one modern election was approached by candidates and those with money. it has some fascinating inside scoops and details that washington-insiders and those who follow politics closely will love. For example, it examines the role of gingrich and other republicans during the budget debates and government shut-down, providing details I've never heard before (and I read the Wash. Post each day and review articles and books on this subject often.

Bottom line: if you want a good look into how money really corrupts our politicians, and a glimpse into how much power the interest groups have, read this book.

Always original and always unabashedly candid, John McCain has won over many fans in the realm of politics - as well as his fair share of enemies. Whenever I hear McCain is to appear on Hannity & Colmes or another show, I make it a point to tune in - because I know something provocative - and possibly something controversial, may be said. That's what sets McCain apart from the politically correct force-fed politicians of today - he refuses to rigidly adhere to the strident dogma of party lines. McCain, instead, subscribes to his own agenda - one of morality, reform, and good old-fashioned honesty.

While Elizabeth Drew primarily delineates McCain's co-authored monumental McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill throughout the book, she all the while allows us to delve into the innerworkings of the McCain office and his devoted staff. While others in his own party(and those outside as well) bash him and label him as being bitter towards Bush as to why he didn't back the President's tax cuts, McCain proves that he, above all, is a man of principle, not party line. True American patriots like John McCain are few and far between. As SC Senator Lindsey Graham says, "The thing about John McCain is that if you ever get to be his friend, he'll be with you thick and thin. There ain't a lot of that up here."

This is a highly revealing book about Senator John McCain, one of the most fascinating figures to hit the political scene in many moons. Those who followed his unsuccessful but energizing presidential campaign will be delighted to see the more complete and complex figure who emerges in these pages. He is shown as a serious strategic thinker who keeps his eye on the ball to achieve a long term legislative goal. While describing McCain the book also gives a lot of insight into the process which led to the passage of the campaign finance overhaul. It's a great read for anyone interested in McCain, Washington politics, the campaign finance system in this country or all of the above.

John McCain is not only important, he is chronically interesting as well, whether running a campaign or plotting legislative strategy. Elizabeth Drew ably captures the many fascinating facets of this compelling figure. You can't understand what's happening in Washington without understanding McCain. And you can't really understand McCain without reading Drew's compelling book.