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The Last Great Senate Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis

Ira Shapiro

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 Great Society legislation, and battled the executive br...

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It was mentioned as a recently published book that provided insight into the more bipartisan Senate of past decades, specifically in the 1970s.

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Well, there's a recent book about this by Ira Shapiro on the great Senate,

— Episode: Mueller Medley & What's Life Worth? (wit...

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It was mentioned as a recently published book that provided insight into the more bipartisan Senate of past decades, specifically in the 1970s.

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Well, there's a recent book about this by Ira Shapiro on the great Senate,

Episode: Mueller Medley & What's Life Worth? (with Ken Fein...

It was mentioned as a book that discusses the Senate's past and how it operated in a more bipartisan era, and was referred to in the context of a conversation about Ken Feinberg's time working on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Well, there's a recent book about this by Ira Shapiro on the great Senate, and one reason is I think that you had some real giants in the Senate during those days who saw the Senate as an institution much differently than it's seen today.

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