Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government by Jeffery A. Jenkins
Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government

Jeffery A. Jenkins

Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government

Jeffery A. Jenkins with Charles Stewart III

496 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from stra...

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