The most exclusive club : a history of the modern United States Senate / Lewis L. Gould.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, 2005.Description: xiv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0465027784
  • 9780465027781
  • 0465027792
  • 9780465027798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JK 1161 .G68 2005
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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.
Summary: Chronicles over one hundred years of U.S. Senate history from the Progressive Era to the war in Iraq, and examines such issues as women's rights, communism, terrorism, civil rights, and much more.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-378) and index.

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.

Chronicles over one hundred years of U.S. Senate history from the Progressive Era to the war in Iraq, and examines such issues as women's rights, communism, terrorism, civil rights, and much more.

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