Recently discovered in the archives of the Dirksen Congressional Center, this is the memoir Senator Dirksen was writing at the time of this death in 1969. Covering the years of his boyhood through his election to the senate in 1950, it reveals the foundation of a great public servant in the making. His gravel-voiced warmth and wisdom come through ...
In the wake of the Great Depression, one of Franklin Roosevelt's most successful New Deal programs was the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal government owned corporation created in 1933 to revitalize the Tennessee River Valley. The TVA provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, strategic materials for national ...
The complaint is all too common: I know something about that, and the news got it wrong. Why this should be, and what it says about the relationship between journalism and truth, is exactly the question that is at the core of Tom Goldstein's very timely book. Other disciplines, Goldstein tells us, have clear protocols for gathering evidence and ...
Justice in the Valley offers a comprehensive history of the legal and constitutional milestones of the court's first two hundred years. The history of the court reflects the social, economic, political, and environmental issues that shaped our country: the illegal taking of Indian lands, Tennessee's secession, desegregation, and religious freedom ...
Cleaning America's Air presents a brief but broad examination of the Clean Air Act of 1970--arguably the most significant piece of enviromental legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress--and some of the major policy and environmental milestones since its passage thirty-six years ago. The book's contributors comprise a group of renowned ...
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