The Freshmen; What Happened to the Republican Revolution

Killian, Linda

ISBN 10: 0813399513 / ISBN 13: 9780813399515

Editore: Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1998

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24 cm. xvi, 463, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendix: Freshmen Elected in 1994. Index. Signed and dated by the author. Linda Killian is a journalist and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has been a columnist for Politico, U.S. News & World Report, and Politics Daily. She has also written for The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard, and other national publications. She is the author of The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution? She is a nationally-recognized expert on independent voters and was the founder of Independent Americans United. She is the creator of the Boston University Washington Journalism Center. Killian was the senior editor of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and was responsible for the editorial content of NPR's national evening news program. She has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. "The Freshmen was praised by The New York Review of Books and other reviewers as a colorful, well-written and insightful analysis of what happened to the congressional Republicans of 1994. Killian explains how Gingrich and the Republicans tried but ultimately failed to change American politics. "The Freshmen" reveals the maneuvering and intrigues, the successes and failures of the 104th Republican Congress and is based on two years of reporting and hundreds of interviews. The book is considered the definitive work on the Class of '94 and Killian has been quoted in Time magazine, The Washington Post and Politico. 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 Gingrich's 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 Clinton's reelection 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. We meet class everyman Van Hilleary of Tennessee; firebrand and troublemaker Mark Neumann; former entertainer Sonny Bono; Enid Greene Waldholtz who is forced to leave Congress in disgrace and Sam Brownback who uses his freshman notoriety to win Bob Dole's seat in the U.S. Senate. The Freshmen is a fascinating look at who the freshmen are and why they are different from other politicians. What did they actually accomplish and how did they change America.

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• Titolo: The Freshmen; What Happened to the Republican Revolution
• Editore: Westview Press, Boulder, CO
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813399513
• ISBN 13: 9780813399515
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Disegnatore: Richard Ellis (Cover photo)
• Edizione: Second Printing.
• Condizione: Very good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very good
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Republican Party
  • Bill Clinton

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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

Informazioni sull?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.