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Understanding Congress : research perspectives / editors, Roger H. Davidson, Richard C. Sachs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1991.Description: xxii, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0160357284
  • 9780160357282
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JK1061 .U53 1989
Contents:
Approaches to Congress. The study of Congress ; Time and history on the hill ; What we ought to know about our national legislature -- Researching Congress: the paradox of sources. The historian's dilemma ; The future of the history of Congress ; Commentaries on congressional research -- The examined life: writing congressional biographies. On the trail of Lyndon Johnson ; Commentaries on biography -- Separate but equal: two hundred years of legislative-executive-judicial relations. The separation doctrine in the twentieth century ; A primer in judicial-congressional relations ; Reflections on the two-hundred year experience -- Congress in the public eye: media and public. The Congress, the press, and the public ; The public looks at Congress ; Perspectives on Congress and the public.
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"The papers and commentary from 'Understanding Congress: a Bicentennial Research Conference, ' February 9-10, 1989, Washington, DC."

"Sponsored by the U.S. Senate Commission on the Bicentennial [and] the Commission on the Bicentenary of the U.S. House of Representatives [and] the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaches to Congress. The study of Congress ; Time and history on the hill ; What we ought to know about our national legislature -- Researching Congress: the paradox of sources. The historian's dilemma ; The future of the history of Congress ; Commentaries on congressional research -- The examined life: writing congressional biographies. On the trail of Lyndon Johnson ; Commentaries on biography -- Separate but equal: two hundred years of legislative-executive-judicial relations. The separation doctrine in the twentieth century ; A primer in judicial-congressional relations ; Reflections on the two-hundred year experience -- Congress in the public eye: media and public. The Congress, the press, and the public ; The public looks at Congress ; Perspectives on Congress and the public.