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UNISA996391264703316 |
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M. M (Matthew Mainwaring), <1561-1652.> |
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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 |
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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?] |
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Pierre, de la Cépède, <15th cent.> |
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Monografia |
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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). |
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UNINA9910960794203321 |
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MacNeil Neil <1923-2008.> |
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The American Senate : an insider's history / / Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, Inc., 2013 |
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0-19-933957-0 |
1-299-48627-4 |
0-19-971011-2 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (470 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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