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This book describes a career politician's pragmatic remedies for broken government, drawn from a half-century of political leadership experience.""""Performance is better than promise"""" has long been the motto of Ernest F. """"Fritz"""" Hollings, former governor of South Carolina and 6-term U.S. Senator. In this political autobiography of his 50-year career in public service, Hollings takes to task our flawed political machine and pulls from his own experiences compelling - and often colorfully candid - accounts how one makes government work in spite of itself. Confrontational at times toward those individuals and issues he cites as to blame for deadlocking government and putting America """"in the ditch"""", Hollings proves through his crystal clear prose he is deeply committed to improving our system of government, strengthening regulations on free trade, countering dependence on wooing campaign contributions, and enhancing our communication and education systems to better compete in an information-driven global market. Hollings details specific instances from his past of moments when bold leadership and smart use of resources and authority led to positive differences in the lives of Americans. It is his mission through this volume to reinvigorate a floundering system and call good people and good ideas back into the service of America's future.

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Fritz Hollings is working on a government reform project he can only conduct from the outside--getting the money out of politics and the politics back into Congress. . . . He outlines his plans for getting Washington off the money mill in Making Government Work. --Bill Moyers Journal With razor-sharp wit and insight, former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator Ernest Hollings has produced a rare species of political memoir that stresses deal-making, compromises, and genuine bipartisanship to produce effective leadership and legislation in government. --G: The Magazine of Greenville (S.C.) Hollings had a reputation for speaking his mind during his many years in office, and he continues to be familiarly forthright in his political memoir. --Charleston (S.C.) Post & Courier Hollings makes it clear in Making Government Work that he--perhaps more than any twentieth-century South Carolina political figure--understands the power and possibility of government. --Columbia (S.C.) State In a gripping examination of the severe crisis confronting the United States, Hollings taps his more than one-half century of public service and presents this user's guide to democracy. --Living in South Carolina

In a gripping examination of the severe crisis confronting the United States, Hollings taps his more than one-half century of public service and presents this user's guide to democracy. --Living in South Carolina

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Ernest F. """"Fritz"""" Hollings has enjoyed a remarkable career of public service as a South Carolina legislator, (1949-1954), lieutenant governor (1955-1959), governor (1959-1963), and U.S. Senator (1966-2005). A visionary workhorse, Hollings has throughout his long and active career focused on putting government on a sound financial basis and promoting economic development to create opportunities. Recognized as an expert on the budget, telecommunications, the environment and oceans, defense, trade, and space, he is the author of the Coastal Zone Management Act (1972), Ocean Dumping Act (1972), and Automobile Fuel Economy Act (1975); coauthor of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act (1985); and led in the creation of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children and passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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