U.S. House of Representatives/Bibliography

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
This article is developing and not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
A list of key readings about U.S. House of Representatives.
Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner. For formatting, consider using automated reference wikification.

Bibliography

  • Congressional Quarterly. Guide to Congress, 6th edition (2007) 1441 pages
  • Congressional Quarterly. Politics in America: 2008 (2007); ISBN: 0-87289-547-5 1224pp, covers every member of Congress; details and samples
  • Baker, Ross K. House and Senate, 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton. (2000).
  • Barone, Michael, and Richard E. Cohen. The Almanac of American Politics, 2008 (2007), elaborate detail on every district and member; 1920 pages; new edition every 2 years since 1976
  • Davidson, Roger H., and Walter J. Oleszek. (1998). Congress and Its Members, 6th ed. Washington DC: Congressional Quarterly.
  • Hastert, Dennis, Tom Daschle, and David Silverberg. Congress for Dummies (2002)
  • Lee, Frances and Bruce Oppenheimer. Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation. University of Chicago Press. (1999).
  • Tarr, David R., and Ann O'Connor. Congress A to Z (CQ Congressional Quarterly) (4th ed 2003) 605pp

History

  • American National Biography (1999), contains biographies of all politicians no longer alive; online edition
  • Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. 2005. biographical entries for every person who ever served; Biographical Directory online.
  • Carroll, Holbert N. The House of Representatives and Foreign Affairs 1958 online edition
  • Davidson, Roger H., Susan Webb Hammond, Raymond W. Smock, eds; Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership over Two Centuries Westview Press, 1998 online edition
  • Galloway, George B. History of the House of Representatives 1962 online edition
  • MacNeil, Neil. Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives (1963) popular history by a well-informed journalist online edition
  • Remini, Robert V. The House: The History of the House of Representatives (2006) the standard scholarly history excerpt and text search
  • Strahan, Randall. Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House (2007) focus on Henry Clay, Thomas Reed, and Newt Gingrich
  • Zelizer, Julian E. On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004)
  • Zelizer, Julian E. ed. The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (2004), essays by leading scholars excerpt and text search

see also [[U.S. Congress > Bibliography]]