The Thin Red Line

If you’ve ever sent a letter or an e-mail to your Senator or Congressional Representative, you have experience with lobbying Congress.   And Donald E. deKieffer has written a book that seeks to help you lobby more effectively.   deKieffer,  a Washington insider with over three decades of experience working our nation’s capital argues that any citizen who is concerned about a particular piece of legislation or legislative priority can be an effective lobbyist and that the much decried "special interests", which everyone it seems wants to curtail and restrict, are really just people like you and me, working together to petition the government regarding their legitimate concerns.    I’m not sure whether I agree with deKieffer’s assesment,  but I certainly learned a lot from reading his book.

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