Death of the Senate

My Front Row Seat to the Demise of the World's Greatest Deliberative Body

Death of the Senate
Ben Nelson
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Hardback
h228 x 152mm - 264pg
28 Oct 2021 US
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9781640124943
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Something is rotten in the U. S. Senate, and the disease has been spreading for some time. But Ben Nelson, former U. S. senator from Nebraska, is not going to let the institution destroy itself without a fight. Death of the Senate is a clear-eyed look inside the Senate chamber and a brutally honest account of the current political reality. This book is not intended to tell old war stories, but to offer lessons for the future. It is meant to shame the current Senate to do the jobs they were elected to do. To warn Americans about the danger if they don' t. Nelson understands we live in an age of "alternative realities" and "alternative facts' " and he gives readers an inside look as he walked the marble hallways alongside some of the last "lions of the Senate" - Ted Kennedy, John McCain, John Warner - legislators who understood the importance of country over party.
"With humor, insight, and firsthand details, Nelson makes the case that the ' heart of the deal' is critical and describes how this was a focus for him during his Senate tenure. He illustrates how and why the bipartisan spirit in the Senate faded away in the Senate, and offers solutions that can restore its vaunted status. "--Jason Schott, Brooklyn Digest-- (9/28/2021 12:00:00 AM) "Mr. Nelson . . . has become discouraged by what he sees. His coming memoir is titled Death of the Senate, and although Mr. Nelson concedes that the institution still has a pulse, he sees it as gasping for breath even as Mr. Biden and some current centrist members struggle to produce a semblance of bipartisanship. "--New York Times-- (7/3/2021 12:00:00 AM) "Senator Ben Nelson offers compelling insights about his time as a conscientious public servant--as he covers historical events and issues such as 9/11, the Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court appointments, dealings with U. S. presidents, and more. Politics was his way of life and the book reads as a folksy narrative by a senator in the know. Democratic U. S. senators from Nebraska have been rare. It is noteworthy throughout the book how Senator Nelson could navigate through the Republican voters and prevail as a governor and a senator. I am not sure when another Ben Nelson Democrat will emerge. "--Peter J. Longo, author of Great Plains Politics "Sen. Ben Nelson was a workmanlike senator; serious, bipartisan, curious, and capable. This book is a reflection of his work on big issues that seem distant but inform our present: the Bush tax cuts, 9/11 and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, TARP, the Affordable Care Act, and early Senate feuds over judicial appointments--including the one over Brett Kavanaugh. Nelson explains how legislation moves; how relationships are built and how they sometimes shift; how the gears of government grind or mesh--depending on the way they are used or misused. . . . You can hear a straightforward plea for a Senate in which senators can without sanction move between both parties and forge compromise; a place where movement is valued over stasis; a place where ideology doesn' t ceaselessly triumph over practicality. "--Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News
Ben A. Nelson is professor of anthropology at Arizona State University. His research focuses on cycles of social complexity and connectivity among the ancient cultures of northwestern Mexico and the American Southwest, especially from A. D. 200-1540, on human roles in and responses to the desertification of grasslands in those regions and on relating archaeology to indigenous cultures of the present day.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781640124943
Published: 28 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 264

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