Author: David M. Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate
Author: David M. Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate
Author: David M. Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Senate, 1789-1989: Addresses on the history of the United States Senate
Author: Robert C. Byrd
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Consists of 42 addresses to the Senate delivered between 1981 and 1987. These speeches have been compiled, revised, and edited to present the United States Senate's history and traditions of the past 200 years.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Consists of 42 addresses to the Senate delivered between 1981 and 1987. These speeches have been compiled, revised, and edited to present the United States Senate's history and traditions of the past 200 years.
The Senate, 1789-1989
Author: Robert C. Byrd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Senate, 1789-1989, V. 1: Addresses on the History of the United States Senate
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
How to Get Rid of a President
Author: David Priess
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541788214
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted -- successfully and not -- to remove unwanted presidents To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Even so, Americans have often resorted to more dramatic paths to disempower the chief executive. The American presidency has seen it all, from rejecting a sitting president's renomination bid and undermining their authority in office to the more drastic methods of impeachment, and, most brutal of all, assassination. How to Get Rid of a President showcases the political dark arts in action: a stew of election dramas, national tragedies, and presidential departures mixed with party intrigue, personal betrayal, and backroom shenanigans. This briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage proves that while the pomp and circumstance of presidential elections might draw more attention, the way that presidents are removed teaches us much more about our political order.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541788214
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted -- successfully and not -- to remove unwanted presidents To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Even so, Americans have often resorted to more dramatic paths to disempower the chief executive. The American presidency has seen it all, from rejecting a sitting president's renomination bid and undermining their authority in office to the more drastic methods of impeachment, and, most brutal of all, assassination. How to Get Rid of a President showcases the political dark arts in action: a stew of election dramas, national tragedies, and presidential departures mixed with party intrigue, personal betrayal, and backroom shenanigans. This briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage proves that while the pomp and circumstance of presidential elections might draw more attention, the way that presidents are removed teaches us much more about our political order.
The United States Senate, a Historical Bibliography
Author: Richard A. Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Congress of the United States
Author: Donald A. Ritchie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195309243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"This completely revised and updated edition contains more than 200 articles, arranged alphabetically, that provide a concise and easy-to-use guide to the people, issues, vocabulary, and activities of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives." "Fully illustrated and using first-person observations excerpted from memoirs, oral histories, committee hearings, and debates in the Congressional Record, this student companion captures the drama, humor, triumphs, and tragedies of congressional history."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195309243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"This completely revised and updated edition contains more than 200 articles, arranged alphabetically, that provide a concise and easy-to-use guide to the people, issues, vocabulary, and activities of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives." "Fully illustrated and using first-person observations excerpted from memoirs, oral histories, committee hearings, and debates in the Congressional Record, this student companion captures the drama, humor, triumphs, and tragedies of congressional history."--BOOK JACKET.
Monitor Builders
Author: William Norwood Still (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vessels
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vessels
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Republic for Which It Stands
Author: Richard White
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190619074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190619074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.