Lobbying in America: A Reference Handbook

Only once in my life have I met a Cabinet Minister (the then Secretary of State for Scotland). This was at a reception where about 100 people were present, the majority of whom (myself included) had some concern which they wished to press upon the great man. His minder (now himself a Member of the Scottish Parliament) spent the whole afternoon trying to organize the throng of supplicants into an orderly queue. I was granted a minute or so with the Minister and considered myself satisfied. This was lobbying in its simplest form; but in the United States it has...