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Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
From their seats in the spectator galleries high up over the Assembly Chamber, the reformers could see him roaming the narrow aisles between the legislators’ desks, pleading, cajoling, threatening, bargaining, dealing, trading votes—using every trick he had learned in his years of working for Tammany.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
“The use of the Senate,” Madison said, “is to consist in its proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom, than the popular branch.” It should, he said, be “an anchor against popular fluctuations.”
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
He was an old-school fiscal Republican until the advent of cable news. Now he believes whatever Bill O’Reilly tells him to, though he gets a bit confused as to why.
David Sedaris • A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
He’s supposed to be working with his fellow legislators, following the civic script I learned in school, not giving them Hulk Hogan’s Atomic Leg Drop. Right?