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The most exclusive club : a history of the modern United States Senate
- Title
- The most exclusive club : a history of the modern United States Senate / Lewis L. Gould.
- Author
- Gould, Lewis L.
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 402 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- United States > Congress > Senate > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-378) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Great old personages : the Senate in 1900 -- The president and the Senate four -- La Follette challenges the Senate -- John Worth Kern and the New Freedom -- The Senate and the League of Nations -- Spearless leaders in the 1920s -- The Senate in the Depression -- The New Deal and the conservative club -- The Senate in wartime -- The Senate at mid-century -- The Senate club in the age of Joe Mccarthy -- Pawed all over : Lyndon Johnson and the Senate -- Mike Mansfield's Senate -- "Juggling too many balls" -- A ruder Senate -- Republican ascendancy at century's end -- Conclusion: The Senate and its future.
- Call Number
- IDF 06-2343
- ISBN
- 0465027784 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005019310
- 9780465027781
- OCLC
- 60839384
- Author
- Gould, Lewis L.
- Title
- The most exclusive club : a history of the modern United States Senate / Lewis L. Gould.
- Imprint
- New York : Basic Books, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-378) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780465027781
- Research Call Number
- IDF 06-2343