The American Senate: An Insider's History

by Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker

Book Overview

Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195367618
• ISBN13: 9780195367614
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"