John J. Patrick is Director of the Social Studies Development
Center, Professor of Education, and Director of the ERIC
Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education at
Indiana University. He is the author of two textbooks, American
Political Behavior and History of the American Nation. Richard M.
Pious is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and the
Graduate Faculties of Columbia
University. He is the author of The American Presidency; The
President, Congress and the Constitution; the textbook American
Politics and Government; and a biography of Richard Nixon. Donald
A. Ritchie is the Associate Historian of the U.S. Senate
Historical
Office and the author of Press Gallery: Congress and the Washigton
Correspondents (which won the Richard Leopold Prize of the
Organization of American Historians), A Necessary Fence: The
Senate's First Century, The Senate, The U.S. Constitution, and
James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators.
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the House and Senate, and four first ladies. The book also supplies
articles on women and minorities in Congress; issues such as
'Campaign Financing, Congressional,' 'Rights of the Accused,'
and
'Test Cases'; and historically important events, terms, and
traditions, such as 'Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,' 'Bunk,' and
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