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As incredible as it might seem, there was a time when Congress
worked—a time when partisan competition produced consensus and
good public policy. At the center of it all, for four decades, was
Robert H. Michel, the longest-serving Republican leader in the
history of the US House of Representatives. In this book, top
congressional scholars, historians, and political scientists
provide a compelling picture of Bob Michel and the congressional
politics of his day. Marshaling a wealth of biographical,
historical, and political detail, they describe Michel’s House of
Representatives and how the institution became what it is
now.During the thirty-eight years that Michel represented
Illinois’s 18th congressional district (January 3, 1957–January
3, 1995), the last fourteen as Republican leader in the House, his
party was in the minority. Drawing on archival material that
captures politics in the making, the authors of this volume show
how Michel made the most of that minority status. They write about
his legislative efforts, as with President Ronald Reagan’s tax
cuts and President George H. W. Bush’s North American Free Trade
Agreement negotiations. The resulting friction between Michel’s
leadership on the national stage and his responsibilities to
constituents back home almost cost him reelection in 1982, forcing
a change in his “home style.” Their essays also cover
Michel’s strategies for House minority leadership, his party’s
proposals to reform the House, and his retirement one election
before Republicans became the House majority party—the result of
a generational and ideological shift to a more combative style of
politics practiced by Michel’s successor, Newt Gingrich. An
innovative approach to biography, with its examination of Bob
Michel’s career from a variety of angles, this volume offers both
an unusually nuanced portrait of one important politician and a
uniquely informed perspective on politics in the latter half of the
twentieth century.
As incredible as it might seem, there was a time when Congress
worked-a time when partisan competition produced consensus and good
public policy. At the center of it all, for four decades, was
Robert H. Michel, the longest-serving Republican leader in the
history of the US House of Representatives. In this book, top
congressional scholars, historians, and political scientists
provide a compelling picture of Bob Michel and the congressional
politics of his day. Marshaling a wealth of biographical,
historical, and political detail, they describe Michel's House of
Representatives and how the institution became what it is now.
During the thirty-eight years that Michel represented Illinois's
18th congressional district (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1995), the
last fourteen as Republican leader in the House, his party was in
the minority. Drawing on archival material that captures politics
in the making, the authors of this volume show how Michel made the
most of that minority status. They write about his legislative
efforts, as with President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts and President
George H. W. Bush's North American Free Trade Agreement
negotiations. The resulting friction between Michel's leadership on
the national stage and his responsibilities to constituents back
home almost cost him reelection in 1982, forcing a change in his
"home style." Their essays also cover Michel's strategies for House
minority leadership, his party's proposals to reform the House, and
his retirement one election before Republicans became the House
majority party-the result of a generational and ideological shift
to a more combative style of politics practiced by Michel's
successor, Newt Gingrich. An innovative approach to biography, with
its examination of Bob Michel's career from a variety of angles,
this volume offers both an unusually nuanced portrait of one
important politician and a uniquely informed perspective on
politics in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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