Leading representatives
Subtitle: the agency of leaders in the U.S. House
By: Randall Strahan.
Series: Interpreting American politics
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801886904; 9780801886911
Subjects: United States. -- Congress. -- House -- Leadership.; United States. -- Congress. -- House -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Leading representatives; Explaining Congressional leadership; Henry Clay: the unionist as speaker; Thomas Reed: the responsible partisan as speaker; Newt Gingrich: the transformative leader as speaker; Conclusion : Congressional leadership and its limits; Notes; References; Tables and figures.