The most exclusive club
Subtitle: a history of the modern United States Senate
By: Lewis L. Gould.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780465027781
Subjects: United States. Congress. Senate -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Great old personages : the Senate in 1900; title: The president and the Senate four; title: La Follette challenges the Senate; title: John Worth Kern and the New Freedom; title: The Senate and the League of Nations; title: Spearless leaders in the 1920s; title: The Senate in the Depression; title: The New Deal and the conservative club; title: The Senate in wartime; title: The Senate at mid-century; title: The Senate club in the age of Joe Mccarthy; title: Pawed all over : Lyndon Johnson and the Senate; title: Mike Mansfield's Senate; title: "Juggling too many balls"; title: A ruder Senate; title: Republican ascendancy at century's end; title: Conclusion: The Senate and its future.