| Main Title |
Understanding Congress : research perspectives : the papers and commentary from "Understanding Congress, a Bicentennial Research Conference," February 9-10, 1989, Washington, DC / |
| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
U.S. G.P.O., |
| Year Published |
1991 |
| Stock Number |
052-071-00917-5 |
| OCLC Number |
496292646 |
| ISBN |
0160357284; 9780160357282 |
| Additional Subjects |
United States--Congress--Congresses ;
United States--Congress--Historiography--Congresses
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
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Checkout
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| EJCM |
LEGISLATION |
1991 2d Flr |
Law Library/Washington,DC |
01/07/1993 |
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| Collation |
xxii,, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-223) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
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. |
