The American Senate
Subtitle: an insider's history
By: Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker
Contributors: Baker, Richard A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780195367614
Subjects: United States; United States. Congress. Senate; History
Description: Shares the history of the United States Senate, including its struggles with the presidency, its investigative power, and how filibustering became a common practice. Explore the Senate's historical evolution, with one eye on persistent structural pressures and the other on recent transformations. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-436) and index.
Table of contents: title: Entering the contemporary Senate; title: Money and politics : electing US senators; title: The collapse of campaign finance reform; title: Dancing with Presidents : a wary embrace; title: Struggling for primacy : from TR to FDR; title: Losing ground to the imperial presidency; title: Living with the House of Representatives; title: The center to which everyone comes; title: Leadership empowered : the modern era; title: The Senate investigates; title: The watchdogs; title: Debate, deliberation, and dispute; title: Dilatory tactics; title: Reform and reaction; title: To the future.