The Freshmen: What Happended to the Republican Revolution?: Inside the Class of 1994 - Brossura

Killian, Linda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0813399505 ISBN 13: 9780813399508

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 1999

Riassunto

Looks at the 104th Congress through the eyes of its freshman class and details what happened when the Republicans took over Congress in 1994

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L'autore

Linda Killian is a Washington, D.C.?based journalist with many years experience covering politics. She is the former senior editor of National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and was a reporter at Forbes magazine in New York. She has written about politics for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, The Christian Science Monitor and The Boston Globe. She is a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Boston University.

Product Description

In November 1994 the Republicans won control of both Houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years in a victory they immediately dubbed the Republican Revolution. Swept into office in that election were 73 Republican freshmen, the storm troopers in Newt Gingrichs army. The Freshmen is the inside story of those men and women and of the tumultuous 104th Congress, one of the most historic and eventful congresses in recent history. The freshmen were at the heart of the Republican revolution. Journalist Linda Killian presents a revealing portrait of their maneuvering and intrigues, their successes and failures. Were they committed idealists or wild-eyed zealots?Killian reveals how Congress really works through amazingly candid conversations with the freshmen. She offers a probing and intimate character study of the colorful and always unpredictable freshmen who shared their private thoughts with her. In early 1995 the Republicans were riding high but they were sent crashing by the government shutdown. Killian explains how they rebounded from that disastrous political maneuver to maintain control of Congress despite Bill Clintons re-election to the presidency, and also explains how the Republican revolution never really existed. Despite being labeled Gingrich clones when they arrived in Washington, in 1997 the freshmen attempted to overthrow Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House. Killian tells the real story of that failed coup. This book is the first detailed, behind the scenes account of the entire 104th Congress and is based on two years of extensive reporting and hundreds of interviews. Killian goes beyond the headlines to show us the power struggles through the eyes of the freshmen. She takes us to the House floor, the committee rooms and private offices of Congress and follows the freshmen back to their districts in small town America in places like Crossville, Tennessee; Wamego, Kansas and Janesville, Wisconsin.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0813399505
• ISBN 13: 9780813399508
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 480