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Congress Reconsidered

Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 154434502X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Congress Reconsidered written by Lawrence C. Dodd and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first edition, Congress Reconsidered was designed to make available the best contemporary work from leading congressional scholars in a form that is both challenging and accessible to undergraduates. With their Twelfth Edition, Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, and C. Lawrence Evans continue this tradition as their contributors focus on how various aspects of Congress have changed over time: C. Lawrence Evans partners with Wendy Schiller to discuss the U.S. Senate and the meaning of dysfunction; Molly E. Reynolds analyzes the politics of the budget and appropriations process in a polarized Congress; and Danielle M. Thomsen looks at the role of women and voter preferences in the 2018 elections. With a strong new focus on political polarization, this bestselling volume remains on the cutting edge with key insights into the workings of Congress.

Congress Reconsidered, 10th Edition

Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1452227829
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Congress Reconsidered, 10th Edition written by Lawrence C. Dodd and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a classic, Dodd and Oppenheimer's Congress Reconsidered is the recognized source for in-depth, cutting-edge scholarship on Congress geared to undergraduates. Thoroughly updated for the 112th Congress.

Act of Congress

Author : Robert G. Kaiser
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307744515
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Act of Congress written by Robert G. Kaiser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and how it doesn’t— Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman Barney Frank, and careful, insightful senator Christopher Dodd, both of whom met regularly with Robert G. Kaiser during the eighteen months they worked on the bill. In this compelling narrative, Kaiser shows how staffers play a critical role, drafting the legislation and often making the crucial deals. Kaiser’s rare insider access enabled him to illuminate the often-hidden intricacies of legislative enterprise and shows us the workings of Congress in all of its complexity, a clearer picture than any we have had of how Congress works best—or sometimes doesn’t work at all.

Congress and Its Members 10e and Congress Reconsidered 8e Package

Author : Roger Davidson
Publisher : C Q Press College
ISBN 13 : 9780872893344
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Congress and Its Members 10e and Congress Reconsidered 8e Package written by Roger Davidson and published by C Q Press College. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a discounted, shrink-wrapped package of 1-56802-935-7 (Congress and Its Members 10e, Davidson/Oleszek) with 1-56802-859-8 (Congress Reconsidered 8e, Dodd/Oppenheimer).

James Madison

Author : Lynne Cheney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143127039
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book James Madison written by Lynne Cheney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new biography of the fourth U.S. president, from New York Times–bestselling author Lynne Cheney James Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today. This majestic new biography tells his story. Outwardly reserved, Madison was the intellectual driving force behind the Constitution. His visionary political philosophy—eloquently presented in the Federalist Papers—was a crucial factor behind the Constitution’s ratification, and his political savvy was of major importance in getting the new government underway. As secretary of state under Thomas Jefferson, he managed the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the United States. As president, Madison led the country in its first war under the Constitution, the War of 1812. Without precedent to guide him, he would demonstrate that a republic could defend its honor and independence while remaining true to its young constitution.

The Marquis

Author : Laura Auricchio
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307387453
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis written by Laura Auricchio and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and fully reveals a man driven by dreams of glory only to be felled by tragic, human weaknesses. Drawing on substantial new research conducted in libraries, archives, museums, and private homes in France and the United States, Auricchio, gives us history on a grand scale revealing the man and his complex life, while challenging and exploring the complicated myths that have surrounded his name for more than two centuries

Congress and Its Members

Author : Roger H. Davidson
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1506369758
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Congress and Its Members written by Roger H. Davidson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gold standard for Congress courses for over 30 years Congress and Its Members, Sixteenth Edition, by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler, offers readers current, comprehensive coverage of Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and as a collection of politicians constantly seeking re-election. The Sixteenth Edition of this best-selling text considers the 2016 elections and discusses the agenda of the new Congress, White House–Capitol Hill relations, party and committee leadership changes, judicial appointments, and partisan polarization, as well as covering changes to budgeting, campaign finance, lobbying, public attitudes about Congress, reapportionment, rules, and procedures. Always balancing great scholarship with currency, the best-seller features lively case material along with relevant data, charts, exhibits, maps, and photos.

The Imprint of Congress

Author : David R. Mayhew
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300215703
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Imprint of Congress written by David R. Mayhew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful examination of the imprint of Congress on politics and society throughout American history by a distinguished congressional scholar

Congress and Policy Change

Author : Gerald C. Wright
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875862691
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Congress and Policy Change written by Gerald C. Wright and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation ." . . a happy mix of studies, approaches, and levels of analysis . . the research strategy embodied in this volume - that of commissioning experts to reconsider their subject matter in light of a given dependent variable (in this case, policy change) - is extremely valuable."--American Political Science Review

Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century

Author : Sunil Ahuja
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814209400
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century written by Sunil Ahuja and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress occupies a central place in the U.S. political system. Its reach into American society is vast and deep. Overtime, the issues it has confronted have increased in both quantity and complexity. At the beginning, Congress dealt with a handful of matters, whereas today it has its hands in every imaginable aspect of life. It has attempted to meet these challenges and has changed throughout the course of its history, prodded by factors both external and internal to the institution. The essays in this volume argue therefore that as society changed throughout the twentieth century, Congress responded to those changes.

President Grant Reconsidered

Author : Frank J. Scaturro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568331324
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book President Grant Reconsidered written by Frank J. Scaturro and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Grant Reconsidered shatters myths about America's 18th president.

The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

Author : R. B. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199713626
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Founding Fathers Reconsidered written by R. B. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who sought to transcend their intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists in North America and as intellectual citizens of the Atlantic civilization's Age of Enlightenment. He analyzes the American Revolution, the framing and adoption of state and federal constitutions, and the key concepts and problems--among them independence, federalism, equality, slavery, and the separation of church and state--that both shaped and circumscribed the founders' achievements as the United States sought its place in the world.

Thinking about Congress

Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415991568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Congress written by Lawrence C. Dodd and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observing the polarized, debilitating politics of today's Congress, one wonders whether change is possible on Capitol Hill. In Thinking about Congress, Lawrence Dodd reminds us that Congress seemed equally intransigent at times the past, yet change and rejuvenation came. Reading his classic essays, one sees Congress move from Committee Government in mid-twentieth century to Liberal Democratic reforms in the 1970s to the 1994 Republican Revolution to Party Government today. Simultaneously, one proceeds with Dodd to an ever-deeper understanding of the dynamic character of Congress. Across forty years of watching paralysis give way to change, Dodd crafts a theory of congressional cycles - essay by essay - that explains why Congress evolves. However permanent periods of intransigency appear, the theory argues, they can and do give way to growing concern by legislators and parties for the collective public-interest; to citizen demand for change generated by social crises; and to innovative ideas about politics and policy. With these developments come policy breakthrough, institutional renewal, and enormous social progress. A rare book, Thinking about Congress holds out hope for the future while illuminating both the process and object of inquiry.

The Atomistic Congress

Author : Allen D. Hertzke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315487918
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Atomistic Congress written by Allen D. Hertzke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. This volume is based upon an April 1990 Carl Albert Center conference commemorating the bicentennial of the United States Congress and the centennial of the University of Oklahoma. The conference was entitled, Back to the Future: the United States Congress in the Twenty-first Century. Its focus was on the nature of change in Congress and on the likely direction of congressional change as the new century approaches.

Dereliction of Duty

Author : H. R. McMaster
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006203118X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Dereliction of Duty written by H. R. McMaster and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. McMaster pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants. A page-turning narrative, Dereliction Of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Congress and the American public. McMaster’s only book, Dereliction of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam.

The Gingrich Senators

Author : Sean M. Theriault
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199339651
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Gingrich Senators written by Sean M. Theriault and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory. Electioneering on the Senate floor, playing games with the legislative process, and questioning your fellow senators' motives have become commonplace. In this book, noted political scientist Sean Theriault documents the Senate's demise over the last 30 years by showing how one group of senators has been at the forefront of this transformation. He calls this group the "Gingrich Senators" and defines them as Republican senators who previously served in the House after 1978, the year of Newt Gingrich's first election to the House. He shows how the Gingrich Senators are more conservative, more likely to engage in tactics that obstruct the legislative process, and more likely to oppose Democratic presidents than even their fellow other Republicans. Phil Gramm, Rick Santorum, Jim DeMint, and Tom Coburn are just four examples of the group that has includes 40 total senators and 22 currently serving senators. Theriault first documents the ideological distinctiveness of the Gingrich Senators and examines possible explanations for it. He then shows how the Gingrich Senators behave as partisan warriors, which has radically transformed the way the Senate operates as an institution, by using cutthroat tactics, obstructionism, and legislative games. He concludes the book by examining the fate of the Gingrich Senators and the future of the U.S. Senate.

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy

Author : David P. Forsythe
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813008851
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy written by David P. Forsythe and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: