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In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No mere civics lesson, this eye-opening book provides an insider's perspective on Congress, matched with a professional historian's analytical insight.

After a swift survey of the creation of Congress by the constitutional convention, he begins to unscrew the nuts and pull out the bolts. What is it like to campaign for Congress? To attract large donors? To enter either house with no seniority? He answers these questions and more, explaining committee assignments and committee work, the role of staffers and lobbyists, floor proceedings, parliamentary rules, and coalition building.

Ritchie explores the great effort put into constituent service-as representatives and senators respond to requests from groups and individuals-as well as media relations and news coverage. He also explores how the grand concepts we all know from civics class--checks and balances, advise and consent, congressional oversight--work in practice in an age of strong presidents and a muscular Senate minority.

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  • Title The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction
  • Author Donald A. Ritchie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2016-08-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780190280147 / 019028014X
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.5 in (17.27 x 10.67 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process /
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016003102
  • Dewey Decimal Code 328.73

About the author

Donald A. Ritchie is Historian Emeritus of the U.S. Senate. He worked for the Senate Historical Office for thirty years, where he conducted an oral history program and did historical editing, such as the previously closed hearings of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. A former president of the Oral History Association, he has also been a member of the councils of the American Historical Association and the International Oral History Association. His other books include Our Constitution, The Oxford Guide to the United States Government, Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents, Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps, and Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932.
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