1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391264703316

Autore

M. M (Matthew Mainwaring), <1561-1652.>

Titolo

Vienna [[electronic resource] ] : Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable princess, the faire Vienna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed [by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet] for Richard Hawkins, and are to be sould at his shop neere Sarjeants. Inne in Chancery lane, [1632?]

Descrizione fisica

[10], 80, 79-180 p

Altri autori (Persone)

Pierre, de la Cépède,  <15th cent.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: M.M., i.e. Matthew Mainwaring, whose name appears reversed on A4r and in riddle-form at end.

Based on: Pierre, de la Cépède.  Paris et Vienne.

The title page is engraved and signed: Geo: Gifford sculp.

Printers' names and conjectured publication date from STC.

The first leaf contains verses.

Identified as STC 24717 on UMI microfilm reel 1042.

Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and in the Bodleian Library.

Appears at reel 1042 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy) and at reel 1455 (Bodleian Library copy).

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0216



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960794203321

Autore

MacNeil Neil <1923-2008.>

Titolo

The American Senate : an insider's history / / Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, Inc., 2013

ISBN

0-19-933957-0

1-299-48627-4

0-19-971011-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BakerRichard A

Disciplina

328.73/071

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Entering the Contemporary Senate; 1. Money and Politics: Electing US Senators; 2. The Collapse of Campaign Finance Reform; 3. Dancing with Presidents: A Wary Embrace; 4. Struggling for Primacy: From TR to FDR; 5. Losing Ground to the Imperial Presidency; 6. Living with the House of Representatives; 7. The Center to Which Everyone Comes; 8. Leadership Empowered: The Modern Era; 9. The Senate Investigates; 10. The Watchdogs; 11. Debate, Deliberation, and Dispute; 12. Dilatory Tactics; 13. Reform and Reaction; To the Future; Notes

Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that forged American history's great compromises? In this groundbreaking work, a distinguished journalist and an eminent historian provide an insider's history of the United States Senate. Richard A. Baker, historian emeritus of the Senate, and the late Neil MacNeil, former chief congressional correspondent for Time magazine, integrate nearly a century of combined experience on Capitol Hill with de