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Title The Austin-Boston connection : five decades of House Democratic leadership, 1937-1989 / Anthony Champagne [and others]
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station [Tex.] : Texas A & M University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Joe Bailey -- John Nance Garner -- Sam Rayburn -- John W. McCormack -- Sam Rayburn's boys: who will lead? -- Back to Boston: Tip O'Neill -- Jim Wright: the last Texan -- Conclusion: the impact of the Austin-Boston alliance on House politics -- Notes -- Index
Summary For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-project relationships) and enmi­ties within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject United States. Congress. House -- Leadership -- History -- 20th century
United States. Congress. House -- Speakers -- History -- 20th century
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Democratic Party (U.S.) fast
United States. Congress. House fast
Democratic Party USA gnd
USA Congress House of Representatives gnd
Demokratische Partei (USA) swd
Subject Legislators -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Legislators -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 20th century
Legislators -- United States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
Leadership
Legislators
Orators
Mehrheitsfraktion
Speaker
Massachusetts -- Boston
Texas
United States
Boston, Mass.
Texas
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Champagne, Anthony
ISBN 9781603443265
1603443266
129905210X
9781299052109