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"An intimately told story, with detailed and thought-provoking portraits."
-The New York Times Book Review
"The Firsts stands out as one of the most important and best reported books written during the extraordinary political chapter in which we are living."
-Nicolle Wallace, author and anchor, Deadline: White House on MSNBC
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In the November 2018 midterms, the greatest number of women in history were elected to...
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Raymond Schroth's Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress shows that the contentious mixture of religion and politics in this country is nothing new. Four decades ago, Father Robert Drinan, the fiery Jesuit priest from Massachusetts, not only demonstrated against the Vietnam War, he ran for Congress as an antiwar candidate and won, going on to serve for 10 years. Schroth has delved through magazine and newspaper...
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This book is a revealing account of two episodes in America's Cold War-era foreign relations. A young American professor is caught up in a racially fraught crisis at an American White missionary-led university in the Congo and is publicly fired. Several years later, he becomes a key staff aide for a congressional committee battling to distance the U.S. government from the Congo dictator's human rights and corruption abuses. His interconnected experiences...
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Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time, when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and '70s, however, lobbyists were aggressive but were countered by progressive senators and representatives, as several books have documented.
What has remained untold is the major behind-the-scenes contribution of entrepreneurial Congressional staff,...
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Découvrez les rouages de la réalisation des compromis et des consensus parlementaires.
L'ouvrage analyse le thème de la formation des compromis et des consensus parlementaires. Grâce à une comparaison originale avec la Chambre des représentants américaine, l'auteure dévoile les secrets de fabrication de ces compromis. Elle explore aussi les motivations des législateurs à s'engager dans des activités parfois laborieuses et coûteuses de...
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This book provides the information that Liberals do not want you to know. With over four decades of experience as a military officer and senior intelligence analyst, John T. Armeau provides analysis, facts, humor, and personal stories about the "Thought Police," Big Tech censorship, socialism, illegal immigration, riots, defunding the police, criminal violence, crime, gun control, and ongoing anti-American indoctrination. The book arms readers with...
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When Imran Awan, an IT aide for Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was arrested by the FBI as he tried to fly away to Pakistan, the media didn't know what to make of the story. Was this just a bank fraud case or something more? Why was this team of congressional IT administrators paid chief-of-staff-level salaries? Why did they provide fraudulent data to Capitol Police? How had they evaded background checks? As facts emerged, it became...
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The must-read summary of Christopher L. Eisgruber's book: "The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process".
This complete summary of "The Next Justice" by Christopher L. Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, outlines his assessment of how and why the Supreme Court appointment process is failing. He explores how Congress can fix the broken process and prevent the Court from being overwhelmed by partisan politics or excessive...
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A historical look at the practice of impeachment, how it impacted the terms of Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton, and how it may affect Donald Trump. It seems quite possible that President Trump will be impeached. Concerns about connections with Russia's attack on our elections, obstruction of justice, illicit business deals, and compromised classified intelligence dominate the news. Robert Mueller's fast-moving investigation has already resulted...
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"Winner of the 2014 Richard E. Neustadt Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" Mariah Zeisberg is assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional...
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William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, where he holds appointments in the Harris School of Public Policy, the Department of Political Science, and the College. His books include While Dangers Gather and Power without Persuasion (both Princeton), as well as The Wartime President. David Milton Brent is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Yale University.
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The brutal confirmation battles we saw over Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are symptoms of a larger problem with our third branch of government, a problem that began long before Kavanaugh, Merrick Garland, Clarence Thomas, or even Robert Bork: the courts' own self-corruption, aiding and abetting the expansion of federal power.
Ilya Shapiro, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, takes readers...
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Thomas Brackett Reed, (1839-1902), occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889—1891 and from 1895—1899. He was a powerful leader of the Republican Party, serving as Chairman of the powerful Rules Committee. During his tenure as Speaker of the House, he served with greater influence than any Speaker who came before, and he forever increased the Speaker's power...
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Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez witnessed firsthand how a person's zip code can shape their destiny. That early exposure to income inequality fueled a passion for change that, in turn, led her to take on, and defeat, a ten-term incumbent to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Now a target for the right, she is an inspiration to millions of millennial voters, women...
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An in-depth examination of the role U.S. House leadership plays in shaping America's national policy and political system.
Many studies of Congress hold that congressional leaders are "agents" of their followers, ascertaining what legislators agree on and acting to advance those issues rather than stepping to the forefront to shape national policy or the institution they lead. Randall Strahan argues that this approach to understanding leadership...
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Two-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard G. Lugar has been one of the most widely respected foreign policy experts in Congress for over three decades. In this illuminating profile, John T. Shaw examines Lugar's approach to lawmaking and diplomacy for what it reveals about the workings of the Senate and changes in that institution. Drawing on interviews with Lugar and other leading figures in foreign policy, Shaw chronicles...
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Can presidents influence whether Congress enacts their agenda? Most research on presidential-congressional relations suggests that presidents have little if any influence on Congress. Instead, structural factors like party control largely determine the fate of the president's legislative agenda. In The President on Capitol Hill, Jeffrey E. Cohen challenges this conventional view, arguing that existing research has underestimated the president's power...
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Christopher Ebbe, Ph.D., has written this book to inform the public about his goals for the country if he were elected President in 2024-most importantly, to return to viewing each other as basic equals, to accept those with different views, and to compromise to solve our mutual problems. Dr. Ebbe would act in accord with true equality (the government taking the needs of each citizen as being just as important as the needs of any other citizen), and...
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A New York Times Bestseller.
How much damage will the Democrats do to our republic in the name of saving it?
In the years he served on and eventually chaired the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Jason Chaffetz gained crucial insight into the inner workings of D.C. Things were bad then, but during the Trump administration, liberals have reached a new level of hysteria and misconduct.
Democrat anger has grown so irrational...
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