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 was chief congressional correspondent of TIME for nearly thirty years. MacNeil was a founding member of the PBS program Washington Week, where he reported on Congress every week for twelve years. Richard A. Baker is historian emeritus of the United States Senate. As Senate historian, Baker and his colleagues produced narrative historical publications and assisted Senator Robert C. Byrd in preparing his award-winning four-volume work, The Senate of the United States, 1789-1989.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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 * First among Equals * 7: Varieties of Senate Leadership-1789-1952 * 8: Leaders Empowered--the Modern Era * World's Greatest Deliberative Body * 9: Sharpening a New Tool: Senate Investigations, 1789-1945 * 10: "The Most Necessary of All Powers": Senate Investigations, since 1945 * 11: Senate Debate: Performance over Deliberation? * 12: Cultivating Dilatory Tactics: The Emergence of the Filibuster, 1789-1968 * 13: "Change is in the Air": The Modern Filibuster * Bibliography * Index
* 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 * First among Equals * 7: Varieties of Senate Leadership-1789-1952 * 8: Leaders Empowered--the Modern Era * World's Greatest Deliberative Body * 9: Sharpening a New Tool: Senate Investigations, 1789-1945 * 10: "The Most Necessary of All Powers": Senate Investigations, since 1945 * 11: Senate Debate: Performance over Deliberation? * 12: Cultivating Dilatory Tactics: The Emergence of the Filibuster, 1789-1968 * 13: "Change is in the Air": The Modern Filibuster * Bibliography * Index
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