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Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Senator written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Senator written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The American Senator written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil MacNeil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190231963
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The American Senate written by Neil MacNeil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares the history of the United States Senate, including its struggles with the presidency, its investigative power, and how filibustering became a common practice.
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512166606
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (666 download)
Download or read book The American Senator written by Anthony Trollope and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Senator" from Anthony Trollope. Anthony Trollope, one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists (1815-1882).
Author : Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
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Download or read book The American Senator written by Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheldon Whitehouse
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620972085
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Captured written by Sheldon Whitehouse and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.
Author : Karl E. Campbell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080788474X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers written by Karl E. Campbell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervin's stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesop's fables, and his earnest lectures in defense of civil liberties and constitutional government contributed to the downfall of President Nixon and earned Senator Ervin a reputation as "the last of the founding fathers." Yet for most of his twenty years in the Senate, Ervin applied these same rhetorical devices to a very different purpose. Between 1954 and 1974, he was Jim Crow's most talented legal defender as the South's constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights. The paradox of the senator's opposition to civil rights and defense of civil liberties lies at the heart of this biography of Sam Ervin. Drawing on newly opened archival material, Karl Campbell illuminates the character of the man and the historical forces that shaped him. The senator's distrust of centralized power, Campbell argues, helps explain his ironic reputation as a foe of civil rights and a champion of civil liberties. Campbell demonstrates that the Watergate scandal represented the culmination of an escalating series of clashes between the imperial presidency of Richard Nixon and a congressional counterattack led by Senator Ervin. The issue central to that struggle, as well as to many of the other crusades in Ervin's life, remains a key question of the American experience today--how to exercise legitimate government power while protecting essential individual freedoms.
Author : Kathleen Flake
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863548
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Politics of American Religious Identity written by Kathleen Flake and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure. The Smoot hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progressive Era Protestantism and Mormonism and resolved the nation's long-standing "Mormon Problem." On a broader scale, Kathleen Flake shows how this landmark hearing provided the occasion for the country--through its elected representatives, the daily press, citizen petitions, and social reform activism--to reconsider the scope of religious free exercise in the new century. Flake contends that the Smoot hearing was the forge in which the Latter-day Saints, the Protestants, and the Senate hammered out a model for church-state relations, shaping for a new generation of non-Protestant and non-Christian Americans what it meant to be free and religious. In addition, she discusses the Latter-day Saints' use of narrative and collective memory to retain their religious identity even as they changed to meet the nation's demands.
Author : Don Oberdorfer
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345149
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Senator Mansfield written by Don Oberdorfer and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC—Senator Mike Mansfield. Mike Mansfield's career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its due in this extraordinary biography. In many respects, Mansfield's dignity and decorum represent the high-water mark of the US Senate: he was respected as a leader who helped build consensus on tough issues and was renowned for his ability to work across the aisle and build strong coalitions. Amazingly, he would have breakfast every morning with a member of the opposing party. Mansfield was instrumental in pushing through some of the most influential legislation of the twentieth century. He was at the helm when the Senate passed landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the creation of Medicare, and the nuclear test ban treaty. Mansfield played a crucial role in shaping America's foreign policy, corresponding with JFK about his opposition to the growing presence of the US in Southeast Asia. As ambassador to Japan, his conversations with Cambodia and China paved the way for Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972.
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The American Senator written by Anthony Trollope and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Senator" is a novel written by Anthony Trollope, a renowned English novelist of the Victorian era. The novel was first published in 1877. "The American Senator" explores themes of politics, marriage, and social class. The central character, Senator Gotobed, is an American politician who visits England, providing Trollope with the opportunity to satirize both American and English society. The novel delves into the complexities of relationships, the clash of cultural differences, and the intricacies of political life. Anthony Trollope was a prolific writer, known for his insightful and often humorous portrayals of Victorian society. "The American Senator" is one of his later works, and like many of his novels, it offers a keen observation of the social and political dynamics of the time. For readers interested in Victorian literature, social commentary, and novels exploring the transatlantic relationship, "The American Senator" by Anthony Trollope is a classic worth exploring.
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Aegypan
ISBN 13 : 9781606640586
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The American Senator, Volume I written by Anthony Trollope and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking across the bridge towards the house, Reginald Morton felt thoroughly disgusted with all the world. Or disgusted, at least, with himself -- for he had altogether made a fool of himself by his manner. He had shown himself to be offended, not only by Mr. Twentyman, but by Miss Masters also . . . and he was well aware, as he thought of it all, that neither of them had given him any cause of offence. If she chose to make an appointment for a walk with Mr. Lawrence Twentyman and to keep it, what was that to him? His anger was altogether irrational, and he knew it was so! What right had he to have an opinion about it if Mary Masters should choose to like the society of Mr. Twentyman? It was an affair between her and her father and mother in which he could have no interest . . . and yet, and yet . . . The novels of Anthony Trollope (1815-82) have returned to vogue in recent decades, enjoy renewed popularity for their gentle yet carefully precise observations of the English people.
Author : Al Franken
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455540439
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Al Franken, Giant of the Senate written by Al Franken and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." -- Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves.
Author : Lawrence Otis Graham
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061120790
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The Senator And The Socialite LP written by Lawrence Otis Graham and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of America's first black dynasty. The years after the Civil War represented an astonishing moment of opportunity for African-Americans. The rush to build a racially democratic society from the ruins of slavery is never more evident than in the personal history of Blanche Kelso Bruce and his heirs. Born a slave in 1841, Bruce became a local Mississippi sheriff, developed a growing Republican power base, amassed a real-estate fortune, and became the first black to serve a full Senate term. He married Josephine Willson, the daughter of a wealthy black Philadelphia doctor. Together they broke racial barriers as a socialite couple in 1880s Washington, D.C. By befriending President Ulysses S. Grant, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and a cadre of liberal black and white Republicans, Bruce spent six years in the U.S. Senate, then gained appointments under four presidents (Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, and McKinley), culminating with a top Treasury post, which placed his name on all U.S. currency. During Reconstruction, the Bruce family entertained lavishly in their two Washington town houses and acquired an 800-acre plantation, homes in four states, and a fortune that allowed their son and grandchildren to attend Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, beginning in 1896. The Senator's legacy would continue with his son, Roscoe, who became both a protÉgÉ of Booker T. Washington and a superintendent of Washington, D.C.'s segregated schools. When the family moved to New York in the 1920s and formed an alliance with John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Bruces became an enviable force in Harlem society. Their public battle to get their grandson admitted into Harvard University's segregated dormitories elicited the support of people like W. E. B. Du Bois and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and broke brave new ground for blacks of their day. But in the end, the Bruce dynasty's wealth and stature would disappear when the Senator's grandson landed in prison following a sensational trial and his Radcliffe-educated granddaughter married a black Hollywood actor who passed for white. By drawing on Senate records, historic documents, and the personal letters of Senator Bruce, Josephine, their colleagues, friends, children, and grandchildren, author Lawrence Otis Graham weaves a riveting social history that spans 120 years. From Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to New York, The Senator and the Socialite provides a fascinating look into the history of race and class in America.
Author : Ben Sasse
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250114411
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Vanishing American Adult written by Ben Sasse and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant—are being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents. From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body—and explains how parents can encourage them. Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to function properly—without them America falls prey to populist demagogues. A call to arms, The Vanishing American Adult will ignite a much-needed debate about the link between the way we're raising our children and the future of our country.
Author : Trollope A.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 552108357X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The American Senator 2 written by Trollope A. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. “The American Senator” is a novel written in 1875. It is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. The novel is largely set in and near the town of Dillsborough, in the fictional county of Rufford.
Author : Patrick L. Cox
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782438
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator written by Patrick L. Cox and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling biography of a Texas senator who was “a defiant, dedicated liberal in the face of conservative Southern politics” (Publishers Weekly). Revered by many Texans and other Americans as “the People’s Senator,” Ralph Webster Yarborough fought for “the little people” in a political career that places him in the ranks of the most influential leaders in Texas history. The only U.S. senator representing a former Confederate state to vote for every significant piece of modern civil rights legislation, Yarborough became a cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs in the areas of education, environmental preservation, and health care. In doing so, he played a major role in the social and economic modernization of Texas and the American South. He often defied conventional political wisdom with his stands against powerful interests and with his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War. Yet to this day, his admirers speak of Yarborough as an inspiration for public service and a model of political independence and integrity. This biography offers the first in-depth look at the life and career of Ralph Yarborough. Patrick L. Cox draws on Yarborough’s personal and professional papers, as well as on extensive interviews with the senator and his associates, to follow Yarborough from his formative years in East Texas through his legal and judicial career in the 1930s, decorated military service in World War II, unsuccessful campaigns for Texas governor in the 1950s, distinguished tenure in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1970, and return to legal practice through the 1980s. Although Yarborough’s liberal politics set him at odds with most of the Texas power brokers of his time, including Lyndon Johnson, his accomplishments have become part of the national fabric. Medicare recipients, beneficiaries of the Cold War G.I. Bill, and even beachcombers on Padre Island National Seashore all share in the lasting legacy of Senator Ralph Yarborough.
