Do Not Ask What Good We Do Inside the U. S. House of Representatives

Name: Do Not Ask What Good We Do Inside the U. S. House of Representatives
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ISBN: 9781451642087

ISBN-10: 1451642083

ISBN-13: 9781451642087

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert Draper

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain, the definitive book about the Bush Presidency, a revealing and riveting look at the new House of Representatives, elected in the history-making 2010 midterm elections.Held during President Obama’s first term in office, the 2010 midterm elections for the U.S. House of Representatives represented a seismic shift in the political climate. Elections were held for all 435 seats, and Republicans resumed control over the chamber that they had lost in 2006. Much of this was made possible by the “tea party” movement, which ushered eighty-seven Republican House freshmen—nearly half of whom were self-styled “citizen-politicians” who had…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Cast of Characters


Prologue: Evening, January 20, 2009



Reinforcements



Tea Party Freshman



The Dean



Bayonets



Shut'er Down



Citizens in the Devil's City



Gabby



The Institutionalist



State of the Weiner



Madam Minority Leader



Continuing Resolution



Moment of Silence



Black Republican Out of Florida



Radicalization



Woman of a Certain Rage



"You Hard Head"



"You Don't Know Where I'm Coming From!"



Draft Horse



The Winning Message



Side Pockets on a Cow



"Here is Your Shield"



"Dropping Out of Things is What I Do"



"You Are Wronf



Rascality



Coffee with Your Congressman



The Hostage



Lower, Ever Lower


Epilogue: Evening, January 24, 2012


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index