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The Invention of the United States Senate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

Fred R. Harris
Fred R. Harris
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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The Invention of the United States Senate. By Daniel Wirls and Stephen Wirls. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 288p. $49.95 cloth. $18.95 paper.

In a meeting in Moscow some years ago, the former Soviet Union's principal Americanologist, Georgi Arbatov, complained to me quite seriously, “We study your system, and we still do not know how it works.” Probably one reason for Arbatov's expressed puzzlement had to do with the role played in the American governmental system by the United States Senate, of which, at the time of our conversation, I was a member.

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BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 652 - 653
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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