Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker present an authoritative, comprehensive single-volume history of the U.S. Senate. The two authors have observed and written about the Senate for a combined total of more than one hundred years.
Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker present an authoritative, comprehensive single-volume history of the U.S. Senate. The two authors have observed and written about the Senate for a combined total of more than one hundred years.
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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Acknowledgments Preface Prologue: Entering the Contemporary Senate 1: Money and Politics: Electing U.S. Senators 2: The Collapse of Campaign Finance Reform 3: Dancing with Presidents: A Wary Embrace 4: Struggling for Primacy: From TR to FDR 5: Losing Ground to the Imperial Presidency 6: Living with the House of Representatives 7: The Center to Which Everyone Comes 8: Leadership Empowered: The Modern Era 9: The Senate Investigates 10: The Watchdogs 11: Debate, Deliberation, and Dispute 12: Dilatory Tactics 13: Reform and Reaction To the Future Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Preface Prologue: Entering the Contemporary Senate 1: Money and Politics: Electing U.S. Senators 2: The Collapse of Campaign Finance Reform 3: Dancing with Presidents: A Wary Embrace 4: Struggling for Primacy: From TR to FDR 5: Losing Ground to the Imperial Presidency 6: Living with the House of Representatives 7: The Center to Which Everyone Comes 8: Leadership Empowered: The Modern Era 9: The Senate Investigates 10: The Watchdogs 11: Debate, Deliberation, and Dispute 12: Dilatory Tactics 13: Reform and Reaction To the Future Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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