Marked Fair condition due to the wear on the Front and Back of the Book Jacket . Please see last two photos. The pages of the book are in Good Condition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

An Insider's History

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, integrate nearly acentury of combined experience on Capitol Hill with deep research and state-of-the-art scholarship. They explore the Senate's historical evolution with one eye on persistent structural pressures and the other on recent transformations. Here, for example, are the Senate's struggles with thepresidency - from George Washington's first, disastrous visit to the chamber on August 22, 1789, through now-forgotten conflicts with Presidents Garfield and Cleveland, to current war powers disputes. The authors also explore the Senate's potent investigative power, and show how it began with aninquiry into John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. It took flight with committees on the conduct of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and World War II; and it gained a high profile with Joseph McCarthy's rampage against communism, Estes Kefauver's organized-crime hearings (the first to bebroadcast), and its Watergate investigation.Within the book are surprises as well. For example, the office of majority leader first acquired real power in 1952 - not with Lyndon Johnson, but with Republican Robert Taft. Johnson accelerated the trend, tampering with the sacred principle of seniority in order to control issues such as committeeassignments. Rampant filibustering, the authors find, was the ironic result of the passage of 1960s civil rights legislation. No longer stigmatized as a white-supremacist tool, its use became routine, especially as the Senate became more partisan in the 1970s.Thoughtful and incisive, The American Senate: An Insider's History transforms our understanding of Congress's upper house.

The American Senate

5686a017-9977-4912-ba19-fbf83d8d2d5f-1

Neil MacNeil

Richard A. Baker

Shares the history of the United States Senate, including its struggles with the presidency, its investigative power, and how filibustering became a common practice.

Category - Non Fiction / Politics and Political Science

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Fair

Listed - A year ago

Views - 5

Ships From - California

Est. Publication Date - Jul 2013

Seller Description

Additional Information

The American Senate: An Insider's History

ISBN: 9780195367614

Publisher Description

Tags

The American Senate

By: ,

$10.00

Meet the seller

Discover more

The American Senate

By: Neil MacNeil

More from this seller

Additional titles by Neil MacNeil

'The American Senate' readers also enjoyed:

Recently Viewed

Browse by categories

Category - Non Fiction / Politics and Political Science

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Fair

Listed - A year ago

Views - 5

Ships From - California

Est. Publication Date - Jul 2013

Seller Description

Additional Information

The American Senate: An Insider's History

ISBN: 9780195367614

Publisher Description

Tags

The American Senate

By: ,

$10.00

Meet the seller

Discover more

The American Senate

By: Neil MacNeil

More from this seller

Additional titles by Neil MacNeil

'The American Senate' readers also enjoyed:

Recently Viewed