Mary Beth Rogers

New, unread hardcover book in like new condition due to rippling across the top and bottom jacket cover from shelving

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

American Hero

An American hero. Nothing less can be said of Barbara Jordan. One of the most influential women of the 20th century, she held an unwavering faith in the American people and heralded patriotism, justice, and compassion. With exclusive cooperation from the Jordan estate, Mary Beth Rogers gives us an intimate look at the woman born in poverty in Houston's Fifth Ward, who went on to become a savvy politician and dynamic leader, exemplifying courage, honor and dignity. Refusing to be "an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution",* Barbara stirred the nation with her forceful and eloquent oratory during the Watergate hearings, yet in 1977 decided not to seek reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives, turning instead to a life of teaching amid rumors of a serious illness.A true woman of heroic proportions, Barbara Jordan spent her entire life shaping the way people think. With her powerful convictions and her flair for oratorical drama, Barbara Jordan helped change the landscape of America's 20th century. Her patriotism, her fire and her perseverance have touched us all. Through this book, her life and the footsteps she left will be reintroduced to a country that is inarguably better for her presence.Mary Beth Rogers taught American Politics with Barbara Jordan at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. A chief of staff for former Texas Governor Ann Richards, Mary Beth is now

Barbara Jordan

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

House Mouse Senate Mouse 

Nick Littlefield

David Nexon

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress

"Two former top domestic-policy advisors to Senator Ted Kennedy offer an inside look at the fight he took up that led the demoralized 1994 Democrats to push ahead with their agenda and reach across the aisle to work with Republicans to pass key progressive legislation, "--NoveList.

Lion of the Senate

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Richard E. Burke

Some minor shelf wear but otherwise is in good condition.

Pennsylvania

My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy

"In 1971 Richard Burke, a freshman at Georgetown University, volunteered his services to the offices of his political idol, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Through ability, hard work, and dedication, Burke rose in the next four years to become one of the Senator's closest staff members. In 1977 he was made Kennedy's personal assistant; after his appointment in 1978 as administrative assistant - the youngest in the Senate - he came to know Edward M. Kennedy perhaps more intimately than anyone outside the closed circle of the Senator's family. He was often the last to see the Senator at night and the first to see him in the morning." "This book is the account of what Richard Burke witnessed and experienced during his decade at the Senator's right hand. It is neither a full biography nor an examination of Kennedy's long career in government. Rather, it is the history of a young man who shared the Senator's professional and personal lives during a time marked by exhilarating public achievements and tragic secret misconduct. His story is not only the chronicle of a shattered idol, but of Richard Burke's own fall from grace, and eventual recovery. Burke does not shrink from confronting his own faults, and he agrees with the Senator: It is time for him to confront his."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Senator

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John McCain

Mark Salter

Massachusetts

A Memoir

The author continues the story of his life, from his return to America after more than five years as a POW in Vietnam, to his rise to success in politics, to his 2000 run for the presidency.

Worth the Fighting For

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Robert G. Kaiser

How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

A fascinating account of the dramatic journey of a financial reform bill in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse that shows just how Congress really works. Never before has the birth of a major bill been dissected in such vivid detail.

Act of Congress

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Al Franken

Washington

A work of political satire draws on a wide range of resources to expose the mendacity of the Bush administration and its conservative Republican supports.

The Truth (with Jokes)

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Sherrod Brown

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the creation of a more just America. They range from Hugo Black, who helped to lift millions of American workers out of poverty, to Robert F. Kennedy, whose eyes were opened by an undernourished Mississippi child and who then spent the rest of his life afflicting the comfortable. Brown revives forgotten figures such as Idaho’s Glen Taylor, a singing cowboy who taught himself economics and stood up to segregationists, and offers new insights into George McGovern, who fought to feed the poor around the world even amid personal and political calamities. He also writes about Herbert Lehman of New York, Al Gore Sr. of Tennessee, Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, and William Proxmire of Wisconsin. Together, these eight portraits in political courage tell a story about the triumphs and failures of the Progressive idea over the past century: in the 1930s and 1960s, and more intermittently since, politicians and the public have successfully fought against entrenched special interests and advanced the cause of economic or racial fairness. Today, these advances are in peril as employers shed their responsibilities to employees and communities, and a U.S. president gives cover to bigotry. But the Progressive idea is not dead. Recalling his own career, Brown dramatizes the hard work and high ideals required to renew the social contract and create a new era in which Americans of all backgrounds can know the “Dignity of Work.”

Desk 88

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- Hardcover
- In like new condition - has slight shelf and reading wear
- From a Smoke Free Home

Shipping via USPS media mail means this item will take 5-7 days to arrive but possibly longer if the post office experiencing any delays.

All sales are final. No returns, refunds, exchanges or cancellations. 

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Wyoming

the camp that didn't fail

Searchlight

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Daniel Wirls

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock

"This accessible book explains the Senate's clash with modern democracy and effective government by exposing this chamber of Congress as a bastion of white supremacy through most of American history"--

The Senate

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Writing and underlining throughout. Name stamp on first page. 

Florida

Manual of Parliamentary Procedure 

Robert’s Rules of Order

Scholastic Teen Age Abridged edition of the original book. 
Uncommon find. 
Completely clean copy. No writing, dog ears or tears to pages. Outside page edges clean. Spine intact with no creasing along outside. Front cover is starting to separate from pages (see photo) but not from spine. Cover shows light shelf wear. Back cover upper left corner is missing its corner (see photo). 
Interesting read. 


Profiles in Courage

Orrin Hatch

Confessions of a Citizen Senator

Anecdotal, soul-searching, at times hilarious, this is a unique and surprising book from one of the great political mavericks of our time."--BOOK JACKET.

Square Peg

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District of Columbia

Outsider in the Senate Senator Clinton Anderson Memoirs with Milton Viorst

Web of subversion

Olympia Snowe

How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

The first woman in American history to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress describes how to dissolve the polarization afflicting the current American government and unite both parties to work for the common good.

Fighting for Common Ground

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William Doyle

Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of Bipartisanship

If greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times--discover the life and career of the senator through archival material, original research, and exclusive interviews.

This is the dramatic story of a conservative champion who shaped modern America--by leading a Golden Age of Bipartisanship and passing more legislation than any other Senator in the post-Vietnam era. Senator Orrin Hatch co-wrote the most sweeping civil rights bill since the 1960s, launched a health insurance program for 25,000,000 uninsured children, co-created the generic drug industry, and championed the greatest HIV/AIDS legislation in American history, while sponsoring or co-sponsoring over 750 pieces of legislation. Based on interviews with Hatch and many of his Senate colleagues plus over 10,000 pages of research from the U.S. Senate Historian's files, this is also the story of a leader who envisions a New Golden Age of Bipartisanship for the future of American politics.

Titan of the Senate

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Elizabeth Warren

Oregon

The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

#1New York TimesBestseller

The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it

With a New Afterword

Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past thirty-five years undermining working families, and a rousingcall to action.

Warren grew up in Oklahoma, and she's never forgotten how difficult it was for her mother and father to hold on at the ragged edge of the middle class. An educational system that offered opportunities for all made it possible for her to achieve her dream of going to college, becoming a teacher, and, later, attending law school. But now, for many, these kinds of opportunities are gone, and a government that once looked out for working families is instead captive to the rich and powerful. More than seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal ushered in an age of widespread prosperity; in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan reversed course and sold the country on the disastrous fiction called trickle-down economics. Now, with the election of Donald Trump--a con artist who promised to drain the swamp of special interests and then surrounded himself with billionaires and lobbyists--the middle class is being pushed ever closer to collapse.

Written in the candid, high-spirited voice that is Warren's trademark,This Fight Is Our Fighttells eye-opening stories about her battles in the Senate and vividly describes the experiences of hard-working Americans who have too often been given the short end of the stick. Elizabeth Warren has had enough of phony promises and a government that no longer serves its people--she won't sit down, she won't be silenced, and shewillfight back.

This Fight Is Our Fight

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#hardcover #alsimpson #biography #senate #politics

Iowa

The Life of Senator Al Simpson

Shortly before Wyoming's Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the United States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. "I am going to make notes when I get home in the evening, as to what happened during each day." Now the senator's longtime chief of staff, Donald Loren Hardy, has drawn extensively on Simpson's personal papers and nineteen-volume diary to write this unvarnished account of a storied life and political career.

Simpson gave full authorial control to Hardy, telling him, "Don, just tell the truth, the whole truth, as you always have. Leave teeth, hair, and eyeballs on the floor, if that results from telling the truth." Taking Simpson at his word, Hardy shows readers a thrill-seeking teenager in Cody and a tireless politician who has thoroughly enjoyed his work. Full of entertaining tales and moments of historical significance, Shooting from the Lip offers a privileged and revealing backstage view of late-twentieth century American politics.

Hardy's richly anecdotal account reveals the roles Simpson played during such critical events as the Iran-Contra scandal and Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings. It divulges the senator's candid views of seven American presidents and scores of other national and world luminaries. Simpson is a politician unfettered by partisanship. Among President George H. W. Bush's closest compatriots, he was also a close friend and admirer of Senator Ted Kennedy and was never afraid to publicly challenge the positions or tactics of fellow lawmakers, Democratic and Republican alike.

Simpson's ability to use truth and humor as both "sword and shield," combined with his years of experience and issue mastery, has led to an impressive post-Senate career. In 2010, for example, he co-chaired President Barack Obama's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Shooting from the Lip portrays a statesman punching sacred cows, challenging the media, and grappling with some of the nation's most difficult challenges.

Shooting from the Lip

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Tennessee

Redeemer President

This biography of the sixteenth president explores Lincoln's life and political career along with insights into his philosophy, religious views, and moral character.

Abraham Lincoln

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Cory Booker

Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good

An energetic new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker sounds a stirring call to reorient our civic discourse around the principles of empathy and solidarity. Telling candid, inspiring stories from his life and career, and imparting lessons learned from people who motivated him to serve, he speaks of rising above discord, tending to our shared resources, and embracing our common destiny.--Summary from hardcover edition.

United

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Adam Jentleson

THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER
"A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” ―Ezra Klein, New York Times  

An insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy.

Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative. Although they do not represent a majority of Americans―and will not for the foreseeable future―today’s Republican senators possess the power to block most legislation. Once known as “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” the Senate has become one of the greatest threats to our democracy. How did this happen?

In Kill Switch, Senate insider Adam Jentleson contends that far from reflecting the Framers’ vision, the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives. From John Calhoun in the mid-1800s to Mitch McConnell in the 2010s, their primary weapon has been the filibuster, or the requirement that most legislation secure the support of a supermajority of senators. Yet, as Jentleson reveals, the filibuster was not a feature of the original Senate and, in allowing a determined minority to gridlock the federal government, runs utterly counter to the Framers’ intent.

For much of its history, the filibuster was used primarily to prevent civil rights legislation from becoming law. But more recently, Republicans have refined it into a tool for imposing their will on all issues, wielding it to thwart an increasingly progressive American majority represented by Barack Obama’s agenda and appointees. Under Donald Trump, McConnell merged the filibuster with rigid leadership structures initially forged by Lyndon Johnson, in the process surrendering the Senate’s independence and centrality, as infamously shown by its acquiescence in Trump’s impeachment trial. The result is a failed institution and a crippled democracy.

Taking us into the Capitol Hill backrooms where the institution’s decline is most evident, Jentleson shows that many of the greatest challenges of our era―partisan polarization, dark money, a media culture built on manufactured outrage―converge within the Senate. Even as he charts the larger forces that have shaped the institution where he served, Jentleson offers incisive portraits of the powerful senators who laid the foundation for the modern Senate, from Calhoun to McConnell to LBJ’s mentor, Richard Russell, to the unapologetic racist Jesse Helms.

An essential, revelatory investigation, Kill Switch ultimately makes clear that unless we immediately and drastically reform the Senate’s rules and practices―starting with reforming the filibuster―we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America.



Texas

The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

Kill Switch - First Edition (Printing 1)

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Allen Drury

Title: Mark Coffin USS 
Author: Allen Drury

Condition: Pre-loved 
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Measurements: 1 x 7 x 4 

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Wisconsin

Mark Coffin, U. S. S.

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Norman J. Ornstein

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Farewell Addresses from the Senate

A provocative collection of original essays from 13 retiring U.S. senators, detailing their reasons for leaving public service and their assessment of the future of America. Diverse issues are explored in these historic documents, but many of the addresses resonate with a common plea for renewal of the spirit of compromise and civility in American politics.

Lessons and Legacies

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