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Bisnow presents an illuminating inside account of how an extraordinary group of people, the congressional aides, wield immense power on the Capitol Hill. The author, who worked for 10 years as a congressional aide in the service of several senators, congressmen, and committees, relates how these paid staffers answer letters, field calls, write speeches and press releases, lunch with lobbyists, cut deals and battle with administrative officials, and...
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By examining the uneven fate of manufacturing industries during the 1930s, Michael Bernstein presents a powerful new interpretation of the Great Depression. The depth and persistence of the slump, he argues, cannot be explained by cyclical theories alone, but by the conjunction of a crisis in financial markets with a long-run transformation in the kinds of goods and services required by firms and households. By focusing on evidence from specific industries,...
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Grinnell lived among the Cheyenne in the latter part of the 19th century. He was a deeply sympathetic observer of Indian life & culture. In this volume Grinnell gathered both Cheyenne & White accounts of the many battles between the two. He carefully explored Cheyenne culture & the way the Cheyenne to the threats on an alien society.
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"In exploring the neglected art of statutory interpretation, Antonin Scalia urges that judges resist the temptation to use legislative intention and legislative history. In his view, it is incompatible with democratic government to allow the meaning of a statute to be determined by what the judges think the lawgivers meant rather than by what the legislature actually promulgated. Eschewing the judicial law-making that is the essence of common law,...
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Devoted to the organization, function, and history of the US Supreme Court, this reference places each Court, together with its justices and individual cases, in historic context, from 1790 to the present. Each chapter presents as background the important events that occurred during the Court's tenure, then provides biographies of the Chief Justice and each of the associate justices, and analyzes the details of the important cases decided by that...
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In the past several decades there has been a significant increase in our knowledge of the economic history of the United States. This has come about in part because of the development in economic history, most particularly with the emergence of the statistical and analytical contributions of the new economic history, and in part because of related developments in social, labor, and political history that have important implications for the understanding...
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"This is an excellent study. Those of us born around the turn of the century will welcome the thoroughness of Professor Murphy's research into the familiar world of the Wobblies, the American Legion, and the American Civil Liberties Union ... discusses with great clarity the use of First Amendment rights in the struggle of labor to arrive at long overdue goals ... and the slow but formidable role of the Supreme Court in the realization of these goals."--Review,...
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