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4) Congress
Author
Publisher
Steadwell Books/Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
2000
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Description
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
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Explores what the United States Congress is, what it does, and what daily life is like for senators and representatives.
Author
Publisher
Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
c 2013
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
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...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2018
Description
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...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen ed.
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
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