The Austin Boston Connection

Author : Anthony Champagne
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603441204
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Austin-Boston Connection written by Anthony Champagne and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the Majority Leader was from Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-protégé relationships) and enmities within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip.

Author : Anthony Champagne
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603441209
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Austin-Boston Connection written by Anthony Champagne and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the Majority Leader was from Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-protégé relationships) and enmities within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip.

Author : Nathan Aldyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783861874133
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Connection written by Nathan Aldyne and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Robert Schneider
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555538088
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joe Moakley's Journey written by Mark Robert Schneider and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1989 in El Salvador, six Jesuit priests and their two female housekeepers were rousted from their beds and shot as they lay face down on the ground. At first, the George H. W. Bush administration echoed the Salvadoran military's line that the rebels must have done it. When House Speaker Tom Foley tasked a senior congressman with investigating the murders, the people of El Salvador found an unlikely champion in the person of John Joseph Moakley, representative from South Boston. In Joe Moakley's Journey, Mark Robert Schneider charts one of the most unusual transformations in American politics. A native son of South Boston, Moakley was an effective and influential House member, whose greatest influence and legacy is, paradoxically, far from home in the fields of El Salvador and Central America. Though firmly, fiercely grounded in his hometown of South Boston--he never lived anywhere else--from the beginning of this investigation until his death in 2001, issues of Central American justice, peace, and economic development became Joe Moakley's cause.

Author : Trevor Bevis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780901680488
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston: American Connection written by Trevor Bevis and published by . This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerold Duquette
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1613769466
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Massachusetts Exceptionalism written by Jerold Duquette and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thorough, engaging, and full of insight . . . a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the state’s governmental process and its political actors.” —Jeffrey M. Berry, author of Lobbying for the People: The Political Behavior of Public Interest Groups Are claims of Massachusetts’s special and instructive place in American history and politics justified? Alternately described as a “city upon a hill” and “an organized system of hatreds,” Massachusetts politics has indisputably exerted an outsized pull on the national stage. The Commonwealth’s leaders often argue for the state’s distinct position within the union, citing its proud abolitionist history and its status as a policy leader on health care, gay marriage, and transgender rights, not to mention its fertile soil for budding national politicians. Detractors point to the state’s busing crisis, sky-high levels of economic inequality, and mixed support for undocumented immigrants. The Politics of Massachusetts Exceptionalism tackles these tensions, offering a collection of essays from public policy experts that address the state’s noteworthy contributions to the nation’s political history. This is a much-needed volume for Massachusetts policymakers, journalists, and community leaders, as well as those learning about political power at the state level, inside and outside of the classroom. Contributors include the editors as well as Maurice T. Cunningham, Lawrence Friedman, Shannon Jenkins, Luis F. Jiménez, and Peter Ubertaccio. “One-stop shopping for an understanding of Massachusetts politics.” —CommonWealth Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.0W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austin v. Hayden, 171 MICH 38 (1912) written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2

Author : Bill Minutaglio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147732190X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles written by Bill Minutaglio and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2021 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award For John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner, there was one simple rule in politics: “You’ve got to bloody your knuckles.” It’s a maxim that applies in so many ways to the state of Texas, where the struggle for power has often unfolded through underhanded politicking, backroom dealings, and, quite literally, bloodshed. The contentious history of Texas politics has been shaped by dangerous and often violent events, and been formed not just in the halls of power but by marginalized voices omitted from the official narratives. A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles traces the state’s conflicted and dramatic evolution over the past 150 years through its pivotal political players, including oft-neglected women and people of color. Beginning in 1870 with the birth of Texas’s modern political framework, Bill Minutaglio chronicles Texas political life against the backdrop of industry, the economy, and race relations, recasting the narrative of influential Texans. With journalistic verve and candor, Minutaglio delivers a contemporary history of the determined men and women who fought for their particular visions of Texas and helped define the state as a potent force in national affairs.

Author : Lori Cox Han
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hatred of America's Presidents written by Lori Cox Han and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines expressions of personal hostility and animosity toward presidents-even beloved ones-throughout American history and their impact on policymaking, politics, and culture. People involved or simply interested in politics often ask whether today's political environment is more toxic than ever before. Hatred of America's Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump presents an impartial and authoritative history of invective toward the White House so readers can determine the answer for themselves. The book focuses on the most representative and commonplace attacks of a vitriolic and personal nature, detailing who instigated and trafficked in the attacks and how presidents, administrations, and political parties defended themselves. It also illustrates how honest disagreements about policy-such as FDR's New Deal, Ronald Reagan's Central America policies, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act-fueled expressions of hatred and condemnation. Finally, the book includes perspectives from both the right and the left on the legitimacy of these attacks and the victims' defenses as well as their impact on American politics and policy.

Author : G. Nelson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349463329
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathways to the US Supreme Court written by G. Nelson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathways to the U.S. Supreme Court is a quantitative-historical recapitulation of the routes taken to the US Supreme Court by the 112 Justices who were confirmed by the Senate and served, and the 28 others whose candidacies for confirmation were defeated, withdrawn, or declined