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It's on the House, both the White one and the one of Representatives, that Gross pins the blame and anguish of roguish federal spending. They pass out virtual carte blanche to the myriad agencies whose profligacy, he despairs, knows no bounds. Is there any way to eradicate $150,000 to study the Hatfield-McCoy feud, $320,000 to buy the home of President McKinley's mother-in-law, or $800,000 for a toilet atop his eponymous mountain in Alaska? Probably not, until the bureaucracy's sumptuary excesses (in free travel, generous pensions, and federally funded schmooze-fests) are eliminated as well. Anecdotally, not analytically, Gross exposes errors and follies that are condemnable as tarnishing what is theoretically a democratic government, but will simply getting rid of everything he blasts balance the budget, as he alleges? Still, the grumpiness afoot in the land is reflected in this catalog, and a trend of feeling that the library might consider reflecting. ~--Gilbert Taylor