02901nam 2200577 a 450 991082404430332120240313202403.00-19-933957-01-299-48627-40-19-971011-2(CKB)2550000001024694(EBL)1179550(OCoLC)841172452(SSID)ssj0000871092(PQKBManifestationID)12440382(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871092(PQKBWorkID)10820046(PQKB)11626860(MiAaPQ)EBC1179550(Au-PeEL)EBL1179550(CaPaEBR)ebr10691672(CaONFJC)MIL479877(PPN)177810769(EXLCZ)99255000000102469420130104d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe American Senate an insider's history /Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker1st ed.Oxford 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 de328.73/071MacNeil Neil1923-2008.1694518Baker Richard A283996MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824044303321The American Senate4073151UNINA