A Short History of the United States

A Short History of the United States
Title A Short History of the United States PDF eBook
Author Robert V. Remini
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 404
Release 2008-09-24
Genre History
ISBN 0061981990

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From a National Book Award winner: “A Short History of the United States may be brief, but it is wise, eloquent, and authoritative.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle “Readers of all political stripes will appreciate” this concise history of the United States (Publishers Weekly), an accessible and lively volume containing the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions, including the arrival and migration of Native Americans, the founding of a republic under the Constitution, the emergence of the United States as a world power, the outbreak of terrorism here and abroad, the Obama presidency, and everything in between. “Masterful . . . a perfect history for our times.” —Robert Dallek, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Nixon and Kissinger “Everything a casual (or bewildered) reader needs to know . . . An objective narrative of this nation’s history.” —Publishers Weekly

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Title Congressional Record PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress
Publisher
Pages 1324
Release 1968
Genre Law
ISBN

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The Republic of India

The Republic of India
Title The Republic of India PDF eBook
Author Alan Gledhill
Publisher
Pages 309
Release 2013
Genre Law
ISBN

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The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress

The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress
Title The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress PDF eBook
Author Donald C. Bacon
Publisher
Pages 606
Release 1995
Genre
ISBN

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Inventing Congress

Inventing Congress
Title Inventing Congress PDF eBook
Author Kenneth R. Bowling
Publisher Ohio University Press
Pages 328
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN

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Inventing Congress collects the best available scholarship on the First Federal Congress, revisiting the record from a perspective of two hundred years. Fresh, informative, and enlightening, the essays touch on some of the formidable challenges facing the leaders of the new republic. The papers collected in Inventing Congress originated in two conferences held in 1994 and 1995 sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society in its series, "Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801."

Congressional Government

Congressional Government
Title Congressional Government PDF eBook
Author Woodrow Wilson
Publisher
Pages 374
Release 1901
Genre Executive power
ISBN

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The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress

The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress
Title The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress PDF eBook
Author Eric Schickler
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 1444
Release 2013-03-14
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0191628263

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No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the branches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III