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Rostenkowski
The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics
By Cohen, Richard A.
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- 978-1-56663-254-6
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Reviewed on October 15, 1999
Big-city machine politics, which made Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley such a dominant force in the Democratic party, had ossified by 1990, helping to destroy the career of his prot g , Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski, chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee from 1981 to 1994. Cohen (Washington at Work), an award-winning correspondent for the National Journal, sympathetically portrays Rostenkowski's long career in the House of Representatives, 1959-94,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
