Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Politics in art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
United States Senate Catalogue of Graphic Art
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Politics in art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Politics in art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
United States Senate Catalogue of Graphic Art
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Contains over 900 historical prints and engravings of 19th and early 20th century images portraying the events, people, and settings of the U.S. Senate.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Contains over 900 historical prints and engravings of 19th and early 20th century images portraying the events, people, and settings of the U.S. Senate.
United States Senate Graphic Arts Collection
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art
Author: Jane R. McGoldrick
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
Traditions of the United States Senate
Author: Richard A. Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Art and Historic Objects in the Senate Wing of the Capitol and Senate Office Buildings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Consists of lists of objects (including maker and location) with no indexes or further descriptions. Preceded by a one-page preface by Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate, Executive Secretary of the Senate Commission on Art.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Consists of lists of objects (including maker and location) with no indexes or further descriptions. Preceded by a one-page preface by Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate, Executive Secretary of the Senate Commission on Art.
The New Members' Guide to Traditions of the United States Senate
Author: Richard A. Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
United States Senate Catalogue of Graphic Art
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Politics in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Politics in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The American Senate
Author: Neil MacNeil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199339570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199339570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.