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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 a century of combined experience on Capitol Hill with deep research and state-of-the-art scholarship. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Entering the Contemporary Senate; 1. Money and Politics: Electing US 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Congress. Senate -- History.
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United States. Congress. Senate. |
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History. |
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Legislative bodies -- United States -- Upper chambers.
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Legislative bodies. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Baker, Richard A., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MacNeil, Neil, 1923-2008. American Senate. Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc., [2013] 9780195367614 (DLC) 2012046807 (OCoLC)813930708 |
| ISBN |
9780199710119 (electronic book) |
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0199710112 (electronic book) |
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9780195367614 |
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0195367618 |
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