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The most exclusive club : a history of the modern United States Senate
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The most exclusive club : a history of the modern United States Senate / Lewis L. Gould.
ISBN
0465027784 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Basic Books, c2005.
Physical Description
xiv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 21, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-378) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Great old personages : the Senate in 1900
The president and the Senate four
La Follette challenges the Senate
John Worth Kern and the New Freedom
The Senate and the League of Nations
Spearless leaders in the 1920s
The Senate in the Depression
The New Deal and the conservative club
The Senate in wartime
The Senate at mid-century
The Senate club in the age of Joe Mccarthy
Pawed all over : Lyndon Johnson and the Senate
Mike Mansfield's Senate
"Juggling too many balls"
A ruder Senate
Republican ascendancy at century's end
Conclusion: The Senate and its future.
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