The best book I have read about the inner dynamics of the United States Senate. --Doris Kearns Goodwin Two top domestic policy advisors to Senator Edward Kennedy offer an insider's view of several remarkable years when Kennedy fought to preserve the Democratic mission against Newt Gingrich's Contract with America and a Republican majority in both houses--a story that has special resonance w as a resurgent Republican right once again controls Congress. In November 1994 the election swept a new breed of Republicans into control of the United States Congress. Led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Republicans were determined to enact a conservative agenda that would reshape American government. Had it t been for Ted Kennedy, they would have succeeded. In 1994, after defending his Senate seat against challenger Mitt Romney, Kennedy came back to Washington to find Democrats, including President Clinton, demoralized and leaning toward compromises that would adopt much of the Republican agenda. Undaunted, Kennedy pressed the agenda he would have championed had his party held power. He rallied the Democrats. He reached across the aisle to craft and pass key progressive legislation. And he stopped the Gingrich revolution in its tracks. Nick Littlefield and David Nexon tell this story of a bare-knuckled and sometimes hilarious fight in the United States Senate. It is a political lesson for all time.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1476796157
ISBN-13
9781476796154
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216767912
Product Key Features
Author
Nick Littlefield, David Nexon
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
Nick Littlefield was Senator Kennedy's Chief of Staff on the US Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and Senator Kennedy's top domestic policy advisor. David Nexon was Senator Kennedy's senior health policy advisor for twenty-two years. They are the authors of The Lion of the Senate.