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This volume is the first major study of the Senate leadership to be cast in a biographical perspective.  It highlights nine outstanding twentieth-century Senate floor leaders in essays written by noted historians, journalists, and political scientists. Each essay places its subject in the context of the political environment and Senate institutional setting of his era, and describes his personal qualities, performance in office, contributions to the Senate, and place in the nation’s political history.

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