The Last Great Senate: Courage And Statesmanship In Times Of Crisis
by Ira Shapiro /
2012 / English / EPUB
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Journalists have called the U.S. Senate an empty chamber;
politicians have lamented that the institution is brokenyet the
Senate was once capable of greatness. Senators of the 1960s and
’70s overcame southern opposition to civil rights, passed Great
Society legislation, and battled the executive branch on Vietnam,
Watergate, and its abuses of power. The right’s sweep of the 1980
elections shattered that Senate, leaving a diminished institution
in its wake.
Journalists have called the U.S. Senate an empty chamber;
politicians have lamented that the institution is brokenyet the
Senate was once capable of greatness. Senators of the 1960s and
’70s overcame southern opposition to civil rights, passed Great
Society legislation, and battled the executive branch on Vietnam,
Watergate, and its abuses of power. The right’s sweep of the 1980
elections shattered that Senate, leaving a diminished institution
in its wake.
Ira Shapiro spent 12 years working for Senators Gaylord Nelson,
Abraham Ribicoff, Thomas Eagleton, Robert Byrd, and Jay
Rockefeller.
Ira Shapiro spent 12 years working for Senators Gaylord Nelson,
Abraham Ribicoff, Thomas Eagleton, Robert Byrd, and Jay
Rockefeller.The Last Great Senate
The Last Great Senate is his vivid portrait
of the statesmen who helped steer America during the crisis
years of the late 1970s, transcending partisanship and
overcoming procedural roadblocks that have all but strangled
the Senate since their departure.
is his vivid portrait
of the statesmen who helped steer America during the crisis
years of the late 1970s, transcending partisanship and
overcoming procedural roadblocks that have all but strangled
the Senate since their departure.The Last Great Senate
The Last Great Senate
is necessary reading for all those who wonder how the Senate
used to work and what happened to the world’s greatest
deliberative body.
is necessary reading for all those who wonder how the Senate
used to work and what happened to the world’s greatest
deliberative body.