Table of Contents

Introduction: Rediscovering the Masters of the House (Roger H. Davidson and Susan Webb Hammond); The Start of Something New: Clay, Stevenson, Polk, and the Development of the Speakership, 17891869 (Elaine K. Swift); Thomas Brackett Reed and the Rise of Party Government (Randall Strahan); Uncle Joe Cannon: The Brakeman of the House of Representatives: 19031911 (Scott William Rager); Oscar W. Underwood: The First Modern House Leader, 19111915 (James S. Fleming); Nicholas Longworth: The Genial Czar (Donald C. Bacon); John Nance Garner (Anthony Champaign); The Speaker and the Presidents: Sam Rayburn, The White House, and the Legislative Process, 19411961 (Louis L. Gould and Nancy Beck Young); Hale Boggs: The Southerner as National Democrat (Patrick J. Maney); Gerald R. Ford: Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, 19651973 (James M. Cannon); Tip ONeill and Contemporary House Leadership (Barbara Sinclair); Epilogue: Leaders Talk about Leadership (Gerald R. Ford, Richard A. Gephardt, and Newt Gingrich)

About the Author

Roger H. Davidson is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland.