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The American Congress: The Building of Democracy
Author(s): Julian E. Zelizer
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication Date: 21 Sept. 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 765 pages
- ISBN-10: 0618179062
- ISBN-13: 9780618179060
Book Description
The most important legislation and memorable characters of the American Congress come to life in a collection of forty essays that demystify the inner workings of this branch of the government that explores important periods in congressional history, from the signing of the Constitution to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of September 11th.
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About the Author
Julian E. Zelizer, Ph.D., is a Professor of History at Boston University. He is author of ON CAPITOL HILL: THE STRUGGLE TO REFORM CONGRESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, 1948-2000, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State 1945-1975 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998), which won the Organization of American Historian’s 2000 Ellis Hawley Prize and the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation’s 1998 D.B. Hardeman Prize. He is author of dozens of publications, articles, book chapters, and book reviews on American government, esp. Congress, and is a prominent young scholar in the American history world.
