Roger H Davidson, Susan Hammond, Raymond Smock

Masters Of The House

Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book identifies enduring patterns of House leadership, explaining the effects of such factors as party strength, White House-congressional relations, leaders' formal prerogatives, members' expectations, public attitudes, shifts in the policy agenda, and leaders' personal attributes and style.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780813368955
• ISBN-10: 0813368952
• Artikelnr.: 21796776

Autorenporträt

Roger H. Davidson, Raymond Smock

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Credits
Introduction: Rediscovering the "Masters of the House"
The Start of Something New: Clay, Stevenson, Polk, and the Development of the Speakership, 1789
1869
Thomas Brackett Reed and the Rise of Party Government
Uncle Joe Cannon: The Brakeman of the House of Representatives, 1903
1911
Oscar W. Underwood: The First Modern House Leader, 1911
1915
Nicholas Longworth: The Genial Czar
John Nance Garner
The Speaker and the Presidents: Sam Rayburn, the White House, and the Legislative Process, 1941
1961
Hale Boggs: The Southerner as National Democrat
Gerald R. Ford: Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, 1965
1973
Tip O'Neill and Contemporary House Leadership
Epilogue: Leaders Talk About House Leadership