Research Catalog

Title

Understanding Congress : research perspectives : the papers and commentary from "Understanding Congress, a Bicentennial Research Conference," February 9-10, 1989, Washington, DC / sponsored by the U.S. Senate Commission on the Bicentennial, the Commission on the Bicentenary of the U.S. House of Representatives [and] the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress ; editors, Roger H. Davidson, Richard C. Sachs.

Author

Understanding Congress: a Bicentennial Research Conference (1989 : Washington, D.C.)

Publication

Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davidson, Roger H.
• Sachs, Richard C., 1945-
• United States. Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Senate.
• United States. Congress. House. Commission on the Bicentenary of the U.S. House.
• Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Description

xxii, 244 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Series Statement

House document / 101st Congress, 2nd session ; 101-241

Uniform Title

House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 101-241.

Subject

• United States. Congress > Congresses
• United States. Congress

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "The papers and commentary from 'Understanding Congress: a Bicentennial Research Conference,' February 9-10, 1989, Washington, DC."
• "Sponsored by the U.S. Senate Commission on the Bicentennial [and] the Commission on the Bicentenary of the U.S. House of Representatives [and] the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Approaches to Congress. The study of Congress ; Time and history on the hill ; What we ought to know about our national legislature -- Researching Congress: the paradox of sources. The historian's dilemma ; The future of the history of Congress ; Commentaries on congressional research -- The examined life: writing congressional biographies. On the trail of Lyndon Johnson ; Commentaries on biography -- Separate but equal: two hundred years of legislative-executive-judicial relations. The separation doctrine in the twentieth century ; A primer in judicial-congressional relations ; Reflections on the two-hundred year experience -- Congress in the public eye: media and public. The Congress, the press, and the public ; The public looks at Congress ; Perspectives on Congress and the public.

ISBN

• 0160357284
• 9780160357282

LCCN

2009526211

OCLC

• ocn496292646
• 496292646
• SCSB-2113597

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library