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Tom Foley - The Man in the Middle (Hardcover)
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Tom Foley - The Man in the Middle (Hardcover)
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Thomas S. Foley, a Democratic representative from the traditionally
Republican region of eastern Washington, served in Congress from
1964 to 1994. In 1989 he became the first Speaker of the US House
of Representatives from a district west of Texas. His thirty years
of experience as a Democrat representing a Republican-leaning
district contributed to his strong commitment to bipartisanship and
institution building. His speakership came to an end when the Newt
Gingrich-led “Republican Revolution” ushered in an era of
ideological polarization and fierce partisanship. Tom Foley: The
Man in the Middle is a political biography of this important but
often overlooked figure in modern congressional history. While
examining the story of Foley’s service as Speaker of the House,
R. Kenton Bird and John C. Pierce place his career in the context
of both his own life story and congressional politics in the late
twentieth century. What emerges is the story of a leader whose
strongly held political values motivated him to sustain a vibrant
and responsive House of Representatives as an institution, with a
stance that proved incompatible with the polarized and strident
political environment that emerged in the early 1990s. Bird and
Pierce offer the first major study of Tom Foley’s political
career in this penetrating look at a unique and transformative
congressional leader who focused on making Congress work by
bringing politicians from both sides of the aisle together.
Foley’s tenure spanned the crucial years of transition between
this bipartisan ideology of governance and the politics of the
twenty-first century, between the leadership styles of Democrats
Jim Wright and Tip O’Neil and that of Republican Gingrich.
Foley’s defeat in 1994 ended this remarkable career of leading
from the middle and marked a seismic transition in the landscape of
American politics.
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