Presidents and the People's House: Power and Politics from the Era of McCarthy to the Age of Gingrich by Jim Wright

Presidents and the People's House: Power and Politics from the Era of McCarthy to the Age of Gingrich

Jim Wright

528 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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On June 7, 1989, Jim Wright became the first Speaker of the House in American history to resign because of scandal. An ethics investigation orchestrated by then up-and-coming Representative Newt Gingrich brought about the ouster of a man who had e...

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