Author: Anthony TrollopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The American Senator
Author: Anthony TrollopeThe American Senator
Author: Anthony TrollopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The American Senate
Author: Neil MacNeilPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190231963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Shares the history of the United States Senate, including its struggles with the presidency, its investigative power, and how filibustering became a common practice.
The American Senator
Author: Anthony TrollopeThe Vanishing American Adult
Author: Ben SassePublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250114411
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant—are being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents. From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body—and explains how parents can encourage them. Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to function properly—without them America falls prey to populist demagogues. A call to arms, The Vanishing American Adult will ignite a much-needed debate about the link between the way we're raising our children and the future of our country.
Captured
Author: Sheldon WhitehousePublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620972085
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.
Senator Mansfield
Author: Don OberdorferPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588345149
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC—Senator Mike Mansfield. Mike Mansfield's career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its due in this extraordinary biography. In many respects, Mansfield's dignity and decorum represent the high-water mark of the US Senate: he was respected as a leader who helped build consensus on tough issues and was renowned for his ability to work across the aisle and build strong coalitions. Amazingly, he would have breakfast every morning with a member of the opposing party. Mansfield was instrumental in pushing through some of the most influential legislation of the twentieth century. He was at the helm when the Senate passed landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the creation of Medicare, and the nuclear test ban treaty. Mansfield played a crucial role in shaping America's foreign policy, corresponding with JFK about his opposition to the growing presence of the US in Southeast Asia. As ambassador to Japan, his conversations with Cambodia and China paved the way for Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972.
The Last Great Senator
Author: David CorbinPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 161234500X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The falcon of the Senate.
The American Senator
Author: Anthony TrollopePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512166606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
"The American Senator" from Anthony Trollope. Anthony Trollope, one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists (1815-1882).
Neighbours in Arms
Author: Larry PresslerPublisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780670089314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description