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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as congress)
avg rating 4.44 — 24,701 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 — 1,092 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 — 444 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 — 457 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 — 2,723 ratings — published 2018
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as congress)
avg rating 4.29 — 28,283 ratings — published 1990
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as congress)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,538 ratings — published 1982
The House: The History of the House of Representatives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congress)
avg rating 3.98 — 202 ratings — published 2006
On the House: A Washington Memoir (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as congress)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,312 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 — 3,818 ratings — published 2012
True Compass: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as congress)
avg rating 4.01 — 12,560 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 — 6,110 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 — 2,610 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 3.93 — 156 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 — 386 ratings — published 1974
Profiles in Courage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as congress)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,072 ratings — published 1955
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 4.56 — 28,712 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 — 990 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 — 680 ratings — published 2015
Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as congress)
avg rating 3.92 — 971 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 — 7,081 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 — 53,927 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 — 757 ratings — published
Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.18 — 93 ratings — published
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,925 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 — 6,853 ratings — published 2020
Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as congress)
avg rating 4.18 — 766 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 4.38 — 224 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 — 3,853 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 4.06 — 260 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 — 2,867 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 3.80 — 235 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
“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”
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“As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.”
― America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
― America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
