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: title: Leading representatives; title: Explaining Congressional leadership; title: Henry Clay: the unionist as speaker; title: Thomas Reed: the responsible partisan as speaker; title: Newt Gingrich: the transformative leader as speaker; title: Conclusion : Congressional leadership and its limits; title: Notes; title: References; title: Tables and figures.