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4) Congress
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This book explains how senators and representatives are elected to Congress, how Congress makes the country's laws, and who the leaders of Congress are.
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Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it.
In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign, finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, trust in our government has reached an all-time...
10) The Congress
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Explores what the United States Congress is, what it does, and what daily life is like for senators and representatives.
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The aim of every political institution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess the most wisdom to disern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society, and in the next place, to take the most effectual precuations for keeping them virtuous while they continue to hold their public trust.
15) The Capitol
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Known today as "the other speaker at Gettysburg," Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War. In this new biography, Matthew Mason argues that Everett's extraordinarily well-documented career reveals a complex man whose shifting political opinions, especially on the topic of slavery, illuminate the nuances of Northern Unionism. In the case of Everett--who once...
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"The startling inside story of Donald Trump's first two years, viewed from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed for advantage as American politics reached a fevered pitch. Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the strategy and the impulsiveness, the dealmaking and the backstabbing, in a blow-by-blow...
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An exploration of Senator John McCain's complicated relationship with President Trump and the Republican Party, as well as his life and politics. The program traces his motivations and his political history, from his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, to his dramatic vote against the GOP's health care bill in 2017. It examines how, with his 2008 nomination of Sarah Palin as running mate, McCain himself contributed to a growing challenge to...