02907nam 2200565 a 450 991045301540332120200520144314.01-299-48627-40-19-971011-2(CKB)2550000001024694(EBL)1179550(OCoLC)841172452(SSID)ssj0000871092(PQKBManifestationID)12440382(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871092(PQKBWorkID)10820046(PQKB)11626860(MiAaPQ)EBC1179550(PPN)177810769(Au-PeEL)EBL1179550(CaPaEBR)ebr10691672(CaONFJC)MIL479877(EXLCZ)99255000000102469420130104d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe American Senate[electronic resource] an insider's history /Neil MacNeil and Richard A. BakerOxford Oxford University Press, Inc.20131 online resource (470 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-023196-3 0-19-536761-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; NotesSelected 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; ZThe 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 deElectronic books.328.73/071MacNeil Neil1923-2008.940214Baker Richard A283996MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453015403321The American Senate2120059UNINA