The American Senate : an insider's history / Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacNeil, Neil, 1923-2008.

Contributor:

Baker, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress. Senate--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc., 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 de

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

Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-933957-0

1-299-48627-4

0-19-971011-2

OCLC:

841172452