Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 324
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-56663-254-6 • Hardback • July 1999 • $27.50 • (£19.99)
978-1-56663-310-9 • Paperback • August 2000 • $19.95 • (£14.99)
978-1-4617-0229-0 • eBook • August 2000 • $18.99 • (£14.99)
For more than twenty years Richard E. Cohen has reported on Congress for the National Journal, a nonpartisan magazine located in Washington, D.C. A winner of the Dirksen Prize for distinguished reporting on Congress, he has also written Washington at Work and Changing Course in Washington: Clinton and the New Congress.
Cohen has written a compelling and insightful biography that does justice to his significant legislator.
— Norman Ornstein
An authoritative and balanced study.
— Steve Neal; Chicago Sun-Times
Masterful...not just a book on Rostenkowski; Cohen has spun the tale of the entire modern period of Congress.
— Larry Sabato, Author of Feeding Frenzy and Dirty Little Secrets
Witty and riveting...a lesson in how politics really works.
— Clarence Page; Chicago Tribune
A legislative biography with a knowing eye.
— Robin Toner; The New York Times
A valuable contribution to public understanding...an insider's story.
— Jim Wright, Former Speaker of the House
An important, revealing, anecdote-laden biography...written by an enormously gifted journalist.
— Charles Lewis; Washington Monthly
The rise and fall of an emblematic political figure