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Historical Almanac of the United States Senate: A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the 100th Congress (U.S. Senate Bicentennial Publication)

Politics & Social Sciences

Baker, Richard A.

Wolff, Wendy

Dole, Robert J.

S/N 052-071-00857-8

Politics & Government

United States Govt Printing Office

The American Senate: An Insider's History

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 provide an insider's history of the United States Senate. Richard A. Baker, historian emeritus of the Senate, and Neil MacNeil, former chief congressional correspondent for Time magazine, integrate nearly a century of combined experience on Capitol Hill with deep research and state-of-the-art scholarship. They explore the Senate's historical evolution with one eye on persistent structural pressures and the other on recent transformations. Here, for example, are the Senate's struggles with the presidency--from George Washington's first, disastrous visit to the chamber on August 22, 1789, through now-forgotten conflicts with Presidents Garfield and Cleveland, to current war powers disputes. The authors also explore the Senate's potent investigative power, and show how it began with an inquiry into John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. It took flight with committees on the conduct of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and World War II; and it gained a high profile with Joseph McCarthy's rampage against communism, Estes Kefauver's organized-crime hearings (the first to be broadcast), and its Watergate investigation. Within the book are surprises as well. For example, the office of majority leader first acquired real power in 1952--not with Lyndon Johnson, but with Republican Robert Taft. Johnson accelerated the trend, tampering with the sacred principle of seniority in order to control issues such as committee assignments. Rampant filibustering, the authors find, was the ironic result of the passage of 1960s civil rights legislation. No longer stigmatized as a white-supremacist tool, its use became routine, especially as the Senate became more partisan in the 1970s. Thoughtful and incisive, The American Senate: An Insider's History transforms our understanding of Congress's upper house.

History

MacNeil, Neil

Americas

Oxford University Press

Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Halls (Lythway Large Print Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Chivers

Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson

Univ of New Mexico Pr

First Among Equals: Outstanding Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century

Cq Pr

The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitutionalism

Senator Byrd reasoned that, "if the history of the Roman people helped to influence Montesquieu's political philosophy concerning checks and balances and the separation of powers, and if Montesquieu's political theory influenced our American forebears in their writing of the United States Constitution, then why can it not be said that the history of Rome and the Romans, as well as the history of England and Englishmen, influenced 'the Constitution's framers'." The Roman Senate had emerged as the mainstay of an extended struggle against executive authority for power to control the purse. For centuries, the Senate of ancient Rome was made up of "the wisest, the best educated, the most respected, most experienced, most vigilant, most patriotic men of substance in the Roman republic." But "when the Roman Senate gave up its control of the purse strings, it gave away its power to check the executive. From that point on, the Senate declined. . . Once the mainstay was weakened, the structure collapsed and the Roman republic fell." Senator Byrd sees ample parallels between the willingness of Roman senators to hand over powers of the purse to usurping executives and the compliant attitude of United States senators in responding to presidential urging for a similar grant of powers in a line-item veto constitutional amendment.

The Senate of the Roman Republic

BYRD, ROBERT C.

Ancient Civilizations

Univ Pr of the Pacific

Netter's Neurology, 2nd Edition, by Drs. H. Royden Jones, Jayashri Srinivasan, Gregory J. Allam, and Richard A. Baker, uses visually rich Netter artwork to efficiently provide you with a concise overview of general neurology and its intersection with internal medicine, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and orthopedics. "It communicates often very difficult areas of neurology quite simply, and builds on basics to advanced understanding. I've never seen such well-thought-out and informative illustrations with such detail in another neurology book of this type." - First Prize Winner, Illustrated Book Category, British Medical Association 2012 Medical Book Competition
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<li>Master general neurology and its intersection with internal medicine, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and orthopedics through comprehensive topic coverage.</li> <li>Get a quick and memorable overview of anatomy, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation from the precision and beauty of Netter and Netter-style plates that highlight key neuroanatomical and neurologic concepts.</li> <li>Explore specific clinical applications with vignettes included throughout the text that bring each topic to life.</li> <li>Find the information you need quickly and easily thanks to the short text and concise topic overviews.</li> </ul>
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Netter's Neurology, 2e

Medical Books

Jones Jr., H. Royden

Srinivasan, Jayashri

Allam, Gregory J.

Medicine

Saunders

In print and online, Netter's Neurology, 2nd Edition, by Drs. H. Royden Jones, Jayashri Srinivasan, Gregory J. Allam, and Richard A. Baker, uses visually rich Netter artwork to efficiently provide you with a concise overview of general neurology and its intersection with internal medicine, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and orthopedics. "It communicates often very difficult areas of neurology quite simply, and builds on basics to advanced understanding. I've never seen such well-thought-out and informative illustrations with such detail in another neurology book of this type." - First Prize Winner, Illustrated Book Category, British Medical Association 2012 Medical Book Competition
<ul>
<li>Master general neurology and its intersection with internal medicine, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, psychiatry, and orthopedics through comprehensive topic coverage.</li> <li>Get a quick and memorable overview of anatomy, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation from the precision and beauty of Netter and Netter-style plates that highlight key neuroanatomical and neurologic concepts.</li> <li>Explore specific clinical applications with vignettes included throughout the text that bring each topic to life.</li> <li>Find the information you need quickly and easily thanks to the short text and concise topic overviews.</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>See the latest developments in the field in clear detail with new artwork and new entries on ALS, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, African Sleeping Sickness, and more.</li> <li>Effectively visualize the underlying anatomy in living patients through upgraded neuroimaging coverage, including MR, CT, and PET.</li> <li>Tap into additional treatment information with more clinical vignettes that provide "real-life" illustrative case evaluations.</li> <li>Access the full text online at www.netterreference.com, along with downloadable images and several printable patient handouts.</li> </ul>

Netter's Neurology, Book and Online Access at www.NetterReference.com, 2e (Netter Clinical Science)

Jones Jr. Jr., H. Royden

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