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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as congress)
avg rating 4.44 — 24,550 ratings — published 2002
Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as congress)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,091 ratings — published 2012
Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as congress)
avg rating 3.84 — 443 ratings — published 2013
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy Series)
by (shelved 9 times as congress)
avg rating 3.77 — 290 ratings — published 2006
Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congress)
avg rating 4.05 — 453 ratings — published 1987
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congress)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,700 ratings — published 2018
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as congress)
avg rating 4.29 — 28,088 ratings — published 1990
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as congress)
avg rating 4.43 — 27,318 ratings — published 1982
The House: The History of the House of Representatives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congress)
avg rating 3.97 — 200 ratings — published 2006
On the House: A Washington Memoir (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as congress)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,302 ratings — published 2021
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as congress)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,804 ratings — published 2012
True Compass: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as congress)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,553 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,065 ratings — published 2024
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,608 ratings — published 2021
Kings Of The Hill: How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course Of American History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.72 — 40 ratings — published
The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.92 — 155 ratings — published 2012
The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.70 — 272 ratings — published 2009
The American Senate: An Insider's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.87 — 124 ratings — published 2013
Congress: The Electoral Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.69 — 385 ratings — published 1974
Profiles in Courage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,964 ratings — published 1955
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 4.56 — 28,634 ratings — published 2023
The Class of '74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.50 — 44 ratings — published
The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.96 — 989 ratings — published 2019
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 4.19 — 676 ratings — published 2015
Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.92 — 966 ratings — published 2013
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,075 ratings — published 2013
The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.55 — 92 ratings — published 2005
Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the US Congress (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.49 — 101 ratings — published 1997
Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.78 — 97 ratings — published 1984
How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.95 — 42 ratings — published 2003
The Collectors (The Camel Club, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 4.07 — 53,545 ratings — published 2006
Congressmen in Committees (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 1973
Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.02 — 741 ratings — published
Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.19 — 93 ratings — published
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,918 ratings — published 2021
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,822 ratings — published 2020
Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.18 — 763 ratings — published 2019
Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.39 — 218 ratings — published 2020
The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,844 ratings — published 2018
Rivals For Power: Presidential Congressional Relations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.63 — 46 ratings — published 1996
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.05 — 259 ratings — published 2014
The U.S. Senate: Fundamentals of American Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.36 — 58 ratings — published 2013
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,863 ratings — published 2011
The Politics of Congressional Elections (Longman Classics Series)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.54 — 84 ratings — published 1983
Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.65 — 34 ratings — published 1977
Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, And Investigations, 1946-2002 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.51 — 55 ratings — published 1991
The Decline and Resurgence of Congress (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 1981
The Dance of Legislation: An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.81 — 233 ratings — published 1973
Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 1999
House and Senate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 3.68 — 37 ratings — published 1989
“It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team of highly trained right-wing homosexuals working on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him.”
― Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
― Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
“That was the only thing Washington was good at these days—recriminations and apportionment of blame. There was once a time, during the darkest days of the Cold War, when American foreign policy was characterized by consensus and steadfastness. Now the two parties could not agree on what to call the enemy, let alone how to combat him.”
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