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The American Senate An Insider's History
ISBN: 9780195367614 | 0195367618
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/3/2013
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The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that forged American history's great compromises?
In this groundbreaking work, a distinguished journalist and an eminent historian provide an insider's history of the United States Senate. Richard A. Baker, historian emeritus of the Senate, and the late Neil MacNeil, former chief congressional correspondent for Time magazine, integr... MORE
In this groundbreaking work, a distinguished journalist and an eminent historian provide an insider's history of the United States Senate. Richard A. Baker, historian emeritus of the Senate, and the late Neil MacNeil, former chief congressional correspondent for Time magazine, integr... MORE
Preface
Getting There
Prologue: Entering the Contemporary Senate
1: Seeking Senators of Judgment and Integrity: Electing the Senate, 1788-1958
2: The Unquiet Challenge of Modern Senate Elections
Natural Adversaries
3: Dancing with Presidents: A Wary Embrace, 1789-1901
4: Struggling for Primacy: Origins of the Modern Presidency, 1901-1945
5: Unequal Partners: Losing Ground to the Modern Presidency: From Truman to Clinton and Beyond
6: Living with the House of Representatives
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Neil MacNeil, a founding member of the PBS program Washington Week, first began to cover the Senate in 1949, and served as Time magazine's chief congressional correspondent for thirty years. He was also the author of Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives and Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. He died in 2008, as this work was nearing completion.
Richard A. Baker was appointed the Senate's first official historian, a post he held from 1975 until his retirement in 2009. He produced a number of historical narratives, including 200 Notable Days: Senate Stories, 1787 to 2002 and Traditions of the United States Senate, and assisted Robert C. Byrd with The Senate, 1789-1989.
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