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Mr. Speaker!

Author : James Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451611099
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Speaker! written by James Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Grant’s enthralling biography of Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House during one of the most turbulent times in American history—the Gilded Age, the decades before the ascension of reformer President Theodore Roosevelt—brings to life one of the brightest, wittiest, and most consequential political stars in our history. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a volatile era of rampantly corrupt politics. It was a time of both stupendous growth and financial panic, of land bubbles and passionate and sometimes violent populist protests. Votes were openly bought and sold in a Congress paralyzed by the abuse of the House filibuster by members who refused to respond to roll call even when present, depriving the body of a quorum. Reed put an end to this stalemate, empowered the Republicans, and changed the House of Representatives for all time. The Speaker’s beliefs in majority rule were put to the test in 1898, when the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor set up a popular clamor for war against Spain. Reed resigned from Congress in protest. A larger-than-life character, Reed checks every box of the ideal biographical subject. He is an important and significant figure. He changed forever the way the House of Representatives does its business. He was funny and irreverent. He is, in short, great company. “What I most admire about you, Theodore,” Reed once remarked to his earnest young protégé, Teddy Roosevelt, “is your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.” After he resigned his seat, Reed practiced law in New York. He was successful. He also found a soul mate in the legendary Mark Twain. They admired one another’s mordant wit. Grant’s lively and erudite narrative of this tumultuous era—the raucous late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—is a gripping portrait of a United States poised to burst its bounds and of the men who were defining it.

Reed's Rules

Author : Thomas Brackett Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Reed's Rules written by Thomas Brackett Reed and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed

Author : Samuel Walker McCall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed written by Samuel Walker McCall and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At the Abyss

Author : Thomas Reed
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307414620
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book At the Abyss written by Thomas Reed and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential, epic account of the past half century, the tense years when the world trembled At the Abyss. Written by an author who rose from military officer to administration insider, this is a vivid, unvarnished view of America’s fight against Communism, from the end of WWII to the closing of the Strategic Air Command, a work as full of human interest as history, rich characters as bloody conflict. Among the unforgettable figures who devised weaponry, dictated policy, or deviously spied and subverted: Whittaker Chambers—the translator whose book, Witness, started the hunt for bigger game: Communists in our government; Lavrenti Beria—the head of the Soviet nuclear weapons program who apparently killed Joseph Stalin; Col. Ed Hall—the leader of America’s advanced missile system, whose own brother was a Soviet spy; Adm. James Stockwell—the prisoner of war and eventual vice presidential candidate who kept his terrible secret from the Vietnamese for eight long years; Nancy Reagan—the “Queen of Hearts,” who was both loving wife and instigator of palace intrigue in her husband’s White House. From Eisenhower’s decision to beat the Russians at their own game, to the “Missile Gap” of the Kennedy Era, to Reagan’s vow to “lean on the Soviets until they go broke”—all the pivotal events of the period are portrayed in new and stunning detail with information only someone on the front lines and in backrooms could know. Yet At the Abyss is more than a riveting and comprehensive recounting. It is a cautionary tale for our time, a revelation of how, “those years . . . came to be known as the Cold War, not World War III.”

Modern Eloquence

Author : Thomas Brackett Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Modern Eloquence written by Thomas Brackett Reed and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nuclear Express

Author : Thomas Reed
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1616732423
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Express written by Thomas Reed and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly spread, and who is likely to acquire those weapons next and most importantly why. The authors’ examination of post Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclear proliferation and the effects of Chinese sponsorship of the Pakistani program is eye opening. The reckless “nuclear weapons programs for sale” exporting of technology by Pakistan is truly chilling, as is the on-again off-again North Korean nuclear weapons program.

Vagaries and Varieties in Constitutional Interpretation

Author : Thomas Reed Powell
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584772107
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Vagaries and Varieties in Constitutional Interpretation written by Thomas Reed Powell and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powell, Thomas Reed. Vagaries and Varieties in Constitutional Interpretation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. xv, 229 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-210-7. Cloth. $70. * With a Foreword by Paul A. Freund. Published versions of the James S. Carpentier lectures delivered by Powell [1880-1955] at Columbia University in 1955. Its chapters include "Establishment of Judicial Review," "Professions and Practices in Judicial Review," "National Power," "Federalism: Intergovernmental Relations," "Federalism: State Powers Affecting the National Economy; State Police Power" and "Federalism: State Powers Affecting the National Economy; State Taxing Power."

Thomas Brackett Reed

Author : Robert J. Klotz
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700633324
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Brackett Reed written by Robert J. Klotz and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining a “statesman” as “a successful politician who is dead,” Thomas Brackett Reed gave himself some latitude in pursuing his goals as a congressional leader. His leadership style is encapsulated in the Reed Rules, which serve as the institutional foundation of the modern House of Representatives and as a metaphor for the practice of power politics for partisan ends. Thomas Brackett Reed tells the story of a roller-coaster career in the Gilded Age. Speaker Reed reached a pinnacle when Republicans enacted landmark legislation in the aftermath of a transformation of parliamentary procedure spearheaded by his dramatic refusal to recognize delaying tactics permitted under the rules in 1890. Months later, Reed led Republicans to a disastrous off-year election, which cost his party unified governmental control and left it with only 26 percent of House seats. He returned as Speaker of the House in the late 1890s, when he became alienated from other Republicans over the issue of American expansionism. Combining extensive archival research with political science findings, Robert Klotz offers a balanced portrayal of Reed’s leadership in Congress. While empowering the House majority party to govern, the Reed Rules can also elevate partisan discord by allowing majorities to craft bill-specific special rules and to neglect opposing viewpoints. Ultimately, the biography illuminates the transcendent challenge of finding compromise in polarized politics.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Author : Samuel Walker McCall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Brackett Reed written by Samuel Walker McCall and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exercises at the Unveiling of the Statue of Thomas Brackett Reed, at Portland, Maine, August Thirty-first, Nineteen Hundred and Ten

Author : Thomas Brackett Reed Memorial Association (Portland, Me.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Exercises at the Unveiling of the Statue of Thomas Brackett Reed, at Portland, Maine, August Thirty-first, Nineteen Hundred and Ten written by Thomas Brackett Reed Memorial Association (Portland, Me.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thomas Brackett Reed

Author : Samuel Walker McCall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Brackett Reed written by Samuel Walker McCall and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Free Energy of Formation of Binary Compounds

Author : Thomas B. Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Free Energy of Formation of Binary Compounds written by Thomas B. Reed and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The War Lovers

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 031608798X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The War Lovers written by Evan Thomas and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm. A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across the seas. Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge were influential politicians dismayed by the "closing" of the Western frontier. William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal falsely heralded that Spain's "secret infernal machine" had destroyed the battleship as Hearst himself saw great potential in whipping Americans into a frenzy. The Maine would provide the excuse they'd been waiting for. On the other side were Roosevelt's former teacher, philosopher William James, and his friend and political ally, Thomas Reed, the powerful Speaker of the House. Both foresaw a disaster. At stake was not only sending troops to Cuba and the Philippines, Spain's sprawling colony on the other side of the world-but the friendships between these men. Now, bestselling historian Evan Thomas brings us the full story of this monumental turning point in American history. Epic in scope and revelatory in detail, The War Lovers takes us from Boston mansions to the halls of Congress to the beaches of Cuba and the jungles of the Philippines. It is landmark work with an unforgettable cast of characters-and provocative relevance to today.

Seeking Hyde

Author : Thomas Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780825308833
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Hyde written by Thomas Reed and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Reed's debut novel, Seeking Hyde, recounts the fascinating history of Robert Louis Stevenson's epic horror story, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is the tale of a young author defying his father's wishes by becoming a spinner of romantic yarns. It is the tale of his American wife, ten years older than he, driving her husband hard to write one more great novel before his chronic lung disease carries him away. It is the tale of Stevenson reeling under charges from the mother of an old friend that he had fueled her son's fatal alcoholism through his recklessly Bohemian ways. Seeking Hyde sticks closely to the biographical record as Robert Louis Stevenson struggles to write another book to be the successor to Treasure Island. After the infamous two characters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, take form in a dream, Stevenson writes passionately for three days, convinced that he has crafted his masterpiece. His wife Fanny, a willful and demanding gypsy, offers a scathing critique, obliging him to start over from the beginning. While the revised tale is published to great acclaim, it is ultimately blamed for inspiring a gruesome series of murders in London's East End. From that tragic historical irony, Seeking Hyde moves beyond the actual story of how Jekyll and Hyde came to be to explore the realm of "what if?" Desperate to address his own guilt, Stevenson enters the dark underworld of Victorian London. As he follows a twisted path through this midnight landscape, the author-turned-detective wrestles with the social demons of prostitution, police corruption, and the hypocrisy of powerful men--ultimately coming face-to-face with Jack the Ripper himself.

The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed

Author : Samuel Walker McCall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed written by Samuel Walker McCall and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Andrew Johnson

Author : Annette Gordon-Reed
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429924616
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Andrew Johnson written by Annette Gordon-Reed and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office. Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed America's greatest chief executive, to bind the nation's wounds after the Civil War, and to work with a Congress controlled by the so-called Radical Republicans. Annette Gordon-Reed, one of America's leading historians of slavery, shows how ill-suited Johnson was for this daunting task. His vision of reconciliation abandoned the millions of former slaves (for whom he felt undisguised contempt) and antagonized congressional leaders, who tried to limit his powers and eventually impeached him. The climax of Johnson's presidency was his trial in the Senate and his acquittal by a single vote, which Gordon-Reed recounts with drama and palpable tension. Despite his victory, Johnson's term in office was a crucial missed opportunity; he failed the country at a pivotal moment, leaving America with problems that we are still trying to solve.