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Book Review


Coining Corruption: The Making of the American Campaign Finance System. By Kurt Hohenstein. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x, 310 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-377-7.)
Kurt Hohenstein seems almost to have written two books in Coining Corruption. One is about the nuances of campaign finance legislation since 1876. The basic history has been well told elsewhere. However, Hohenstein adds a series of richly contextualized examinations in which the intentions and understandings of the sponsors and opponents of a dozen laws are seen against the backdrop of contemporary campaign practices as well as the larger agendas of the day. These alone make the book worth reading. . . .
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