This book is a high stakes person al and political struggle between the president and the speaker. It is take the reader through the electric 44 days during the summer of 2011 with day by day often jour by hour accounts as the two attempt a grand bargain to cut entitlement spending and increase tax revenue. It is shows why the grand bargain was never reached and how the president the speaker and the Congress settled for stopgap measures that delayed any serious deficit reduction until 2013
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