Congress and the American Tradition

by James Burnham

Book Overview

2011 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The central place of Congress in the American political tradition, the decline... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895267179
• ISBN13: 9780895267177
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Gateway Editions
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A Necessary Return to First Principles

Burnham's book is an outstanding historical overview of the nature of Congress as an institution. The strength of the work is in its thoughtful application of founding principles to the historical working and devolution of Congress up until the late 1950s. As such, the reader should not expect the book to deliver much in the way of specific therapeutic prescriptions for contemporary problems; it is far better utilized as a sobering reminder of basic requirements for an ordered republic, with current students of the American regime doing the applicative work to the issues of our own time.