The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis by Ira Shapiro

The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis

Ira Shapiro

475 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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Journalists have called the U.S. Senate an empty chamber; politicians have lamented that the institution is broken--yet the Senate was once capable of greatness. Senators of the 1960s and '70s overcame southern opposition to civil rights, passed G...

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