Books by Ira Shapiro and Complete Book Reviews
Ira Shapiro. PublicAffairs, $34.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-58648-936-6
At a time when the hapless U.S. Congress has received low approval ratings, Shapiro, a former Senate staffer and now an international trade lawyer, looks back at a golden era of lawmakers who performed admirably in a period of domestic and foreign...
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Ira Shapiro. Rowman & Littlefield, $35 (332p) ISBN 978-1-5381-0582-5
Shapiro (The Last Great Senate), a former trade negotiator for the Clinton administration, examines headline-making political battles dating back to the 1970s in this engrossing overview of the Senate’s decline into what he characterizes as...
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Ira Shapiro. Rowman & Littlefield, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5381-6397-9
Historian and lawyer Shapiro (Broken) argues in this blistering if familiar takedown that Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has prioritized his own career and the Republican agenda above America’s interests. Though the “democratized” Senate of...
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