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	United States Senate - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Senators serve for terms of six years; the terms are staggered so that approximately one-third of the Senate is up for election every two years: each time there are elections in about 33 states for one of the two seats.
		Senators are elected by their state as a whole; if both Senate seats are contested in one election year, the elections will be separate and all voters in the state will cast votes for one candidate in each of the two races.
		The first session of Senate to be open to the public was held on February 11, 1794 and on February 27, 1986 the Senate allowed its debates to be televised on a trial basis (which was later made permanent).
	open-encyclopedia.com /United_States_Senate (4259 words)

	Flak Magazine: Master of the Senate, Part One, 05-03-02
		"Master of the Senate" is the third book in Robert A. Caro's series, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson." It is more than 1,000 pages long.
		In the opening of chapter of "Master of the Senate," Caro lays out some of the institution's glory years (1819 to 1859), an era when it served very much as the Founding Fathers intended: as a detached and principled bulwark against an intemperate House and the passions of the people.
		"Master of the Senate" is, perhaps, a tribute to everything that modern politics is not.
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	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Senate Leaders
		Known as a "senator's senator," Russell could have obtained his party's floor leadership, but he preferred to exert leadership behind the scenes in committee.
		Senator Wayne Morse had just resigned from the Republican Party, but he agreed to vote to allow Republicans to organize the Senate.
		Senator George Smathers (D-Florida) recalled in an oral history that "Johnson didn't really want to leave the Senate." The new vice president retained the office that he had used as majority leader (S-211, now called the LBJ Room).
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_Johnson.htm (1175 words)

	Powell's Books - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
		Master of the Senate is told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro’s peerless research—years immersed in the worlds of Johnson and the United States Senate, examining thousands of documents and talking to hundreds of people, from pages and cloakroom clerks to senators and administrative aides.
		In preparation for writing Master of the Senate, the third volume, Caro immersed himself in the world of the United States Senate, spending week after week in the gallery, in committee rooms, in the Senate Office Building, and interviewing hundreds of people, from pages and cloakroom clerks to senators and administrative aides.
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		Senators would also be armored against the popular will by the length of their terms, the Framers decided.
		Then another senator shouted: “He is here.” And near the conclusion of Webster’s speech, Calhoun engaged him in a brief, harsh exchange, at the end of which there was an exchange that was less harsh, as if Webster had suddenly realized that it might be the last they would ever have.
		Contrasting the Senate with the “vulgar demeanor” of the House of Representatives, de Tocqueville, after his tour of the United States in 1831, was to comment that “The Senate contains within a small space a large proportion of the celebrated men of America.
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	Books at Random House of Canada \| Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
		The Desks of the Senate The Chamber of the United States Senate was a long, cavernous space—over a hundred feet long.
		Among those men were western senators, ardent nationalists, who had “thrilled to the patriotic fervor of Webster’s final words.” Those words crushed the southern hope for an alliance with the West.
		Excerpted from Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro Copyright © 2002 by Robert A. Caro.
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	Flak Magazine: Master of the Senate, Part Five, 05-31-02
		To lock up his hold on the Senate, Johnson courted, seduced and maintained the favor of Georgia Senator Richard Russell, the Senate's dominant Democrat and one of the most powerful men in American politics.
		Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become chairman of the Government Operations Committee.
		But though he was the Senate leader for the Democrats, Johnson's hands were tied by Senate history.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson at Epinions.com
		A senator anxious to pass a minor bill that benefited his state alone could appeal to Johnson, and it was done.
		Johnson knew southern senators were unmoved by Negro poverty, oppression, and discriminatory laws, and they only mildly disapproved of lynching.
		Speaking of genius, Master of the Senate runs to over a thousand pages, many devoted to the minutia of political maneuvering, yet it’s hard to put down.
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	Amazon.com: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960.
		The Senate is a genteel establishment engaged in a legislative process that often appears arcane to outsiders.
		"Master of the Senate" is a history of LBJ, the U.S. Senate and American politics from 1948-1960.
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	Borders - Feature - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
		Approaching the senator, Johnson would lean over him, perhaps chatting amiably for a moment or two about inconsequential matters, but with his weight resting on one hand that had been placed on the back of the couch, close by the senator's shoulder.
		With the senator's continued presence thus assured, the first Johnson arm, the one that had been resting on the back of the couch, would stretch along it, so that the senator was almost completely surrounded.
		If all his senators were present when the roll call began, and he could see that there were absentees on the other side, he wanted the roll to be called at a fast pace.
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	Master of the Senate - Mises Institute
		He is the "leader" (thatâs what many slavish senators call him) who, in the late 1950s, oversees the passage of the first civil rights bill since the Reconstruction Era.
		All of a sudden, LBJ, the tacit supporter of the Jim Crow Southern senators in the 1950s, was singing "We Shall Overcome." In Vietnam, this devious, I-will-be-all-things-to-all-people formula met its match, but not before some 50,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese had died in a war that the U.S. easily could have avoided.
		By 1968, this former "master of the Senate," this once-popular president who had won a lopsided victory in the 1964 election by charging that Barry Goldwater would start World War III, was so hated that he restricted his public appearances primarily to military bases.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.asp?control=975&FS=Master+of+the+Senate (1361 words)

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		Master of the Senate doesn’t move as gracefully as the classic first book — in fact, it starts off rather slowly, with a 100-page mini-history of the Senate — but it’s more engaging than the second, even though it’s more than twice as long.
		Landing in the Senate by the skin of his teeth — a miracle of legal maneuvering having allowed him to get away with the 202 votes he supposedly bought to knock off Coke Stevenson — Johnson quickly turns the place into his own fiefdom.
		When Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver confronts Johnson as to why he is refused a seat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Johnson is to the point: “Maybe I just felt like I wasn’t positive you wanted me to be the captain...
	free-times.com /Reviews/lyndonjohnson.html (1437 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert A. Caro - Hardcover
		Opposition to civil rights, Caro notes, was the southern senators' ongoing revenge for Gettysburg, a defense of the mythologized southern way of life: gentility in the big house, obedient fls in field and factory, and respect for God, woman, and tradition.
		Master of the Senate is vintage Caro--a portrait so deft, vivid, and compelling that you practically feel LBJ gripping your arm and bending you to his will.
		Master of the Senate is one of the best political biographies I have ever read.
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	The New York Times > Washington > A Master of the Senate's Ways Is Still Parrying in His Twilight
		Senator Robert C. Byrd, after speaking at a MoveOn.org rally last month in Washington, defending the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominees.
		Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, is front and center in that fight, carrying the banner for his party and at the same time drawing the ire of conservatives outraged by his vocal defense of the filibuster.
		Byrd, invoking Senate tradition and his beloved Constitution, is railing against it, drawing charges of hypocrisy from Republicans who say that when he was leader, he initiated some artful rules changes of his own.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/04/03/politics/03byrd.html?ex=1270184400&en=56eab97cb3707a8d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt (884 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
		Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate.
		In this historical tour-de-force, Robert Caro shows himself the true 'master of the Senate.' "—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr Master of the Senate and its two preceding volumes are the highest expression of biography as art.
		Master of the Senate succeeds only in part because Johnson is such a fascinating figure.
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	Master of the senate
		Master of the Senate, like the two previous Johnson volumes and like Caro's legendary biography of Robert Moses, is like the historian's equivalent of a Mahler symphony: Caro includes chapter-length portraits of major players (Sens.
		The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale.
		Master of the Senate,...and its two preceding volumes are the highest expression of biography as art.
	robertcaro.com /senate.htm (1752 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Master of Senate' a penetrating look at LBJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But as Robert Caro writes in Master of the Senate, out Tuesday, Johnson was a "great reader of men.
		Master of the Senate, the third of Caro's four volumes on Johnson, deals with his Senate years, from 1949 to 1960.
		It's the story of the Senate, described in 1956 as "the South's unending revenge upon the North for Gettysburg," and how a year later, Johnson used threats and lies to ram through the Civil Rights Bill of 1957, the first such bill in 87 years.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/2002-04-23-caro.htm (549 words)

	Robert Caro -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In fact, her master's thesis on the (additional info and facts about Triborough Bridge) Triborough Bridge stemmed from this work.
		The third and last published volume, (additional info and facts about Master of the Senate) Master of the Senate (2002) chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent and rule as (Leader of the majority party in a legislature) Majority Leader in the Senate and garnered Caro a second (additional info and facts about Pulitzer Prize) Pulitzer Prize.
		Caro discovered, for example, that Johnson "won" the Senate election of 1948 due to massive fraud and ballot box stuffing.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_caro.htm (500 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
		From the well, the columns and pilasters behind the dais were, suddenly, tall and stately and topped with scrolls, like the columns of the Roman Senate’s chamber, the columns before which Cato spoke and Caesar fell, and above the columns, carved in cream-colored marble, were eagles, for Rome’s legions marched behind eagles.
		In an earlier Senate speech that January of 1830, the South, through the South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne, had proposed that the West should join the South in an alliance that could have the most serious implications for the future of the Union.
		Among other means by the establishment of a body in the government sufficiently respectable for its wisdom and virtue, to aid on such emergencies, the preponderance of justice by throwing its weight into that scale.” This body, Madison said, was to be the Senate.
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	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro, reviewed by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In his chronicle of the 36th president of the United States, Caro has written a series of books that blend the fierce muckraking of the best journalistic investigation with the gravity of history.
		These were the twelve years during which Johnson rose from freshman solon to Senate Majority Leader, one of the most powerful majority leaders in the history of the chamber.
		Next he has to tell the life story of Georgia senator Richard Russell, who proved to be a key instrument in Johnson's acquisition of power.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_05_11.html (579 words)

	Master of the Senate - The Years of Lyndon Johnson - The Yale Review of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Master of the Senate, the focus shifts from Texas to Washington, to the story of how a first-term senator, elected by the slimmest and most dubious of margins, became the most powerful majority leader in Senate history.
		Caro begins by describing the Senate as it was in 1948.
		A virtuoso of biography, he cuts to the heart of his subject, evoking the scope of Johnson's personality and achievements in a book as massive and absorbing as the master himself.
	www.yalereviewofbooks.com /archive/fall02/review17.shtml.htm (550 words)

	Master of the Senate By Christopher Caldwell and David Greenberg
		Post-Senate, Johnson's presidential activity was impressive, particularly on race and health care—but he must share most of the credit with massive social movements in the former case and with the political momentum of President Kennedy's martyrdom in the latter.
		Caro appreciates the role that history itself plays in the Senate, the way that the body's traditions (and, compared to the House, its undemocratic nature) served the segregationist South even after that region's racial attitudes had become anathema to most Americans.
		This focus on the Senate as a body—a focus that shapes the book—is a shrewd interpretive move.
	www.slate.com /id/2064790/entry/2064919 (1930 words)

	The Making of LBJ; A review of Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Johnson arrived in the senate in 1949 as a full-throated adherent to the Southern cause.
		Master of the Senate ends with a vignette that captures the problem with Johnson in a way that Caro probably doesn't fully appreciate.
		Johnson was not that Left Wing in his Senate years, in part because his power was derived from Richard Russell and the Southern Caucus, and in part because he decided to align himself with Eisenhower to point up the tensions between Senate Republicans and the President on many matters.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/797568/posts (4935 words)

	CommaDot.Com: Master of The Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Anyway, the first hundred pages of Master of the Senate are actually a good (but brief) history of the Senate as an institution.
		On the one hand, I think historically the Senate was good in the 19th century up the Civil War.
		However, my statement is that historically speaking, the Senate has been much worse than the House in passing human rights legislation.
	www.commadot.com /2005/07/master-of-senate.html (379 words)

	uExpress.com: Richard Reeves by Richard Reeves -- (11/15/2002) THE NEXT MASTER OF THE SENATE
		McConnell, with a better sense of self, sponsored a Senate resolution that ensures for all time that the state's senior senator will be assigned the desk McConnell now sits behind, the desk once used by Kentucky's great son, Henry Clay.
		McConnell, to use Robert Caro's title for Lyndon Johnson, is a new "Master of the Senate." That status was formalized this week when McConnell was elected majority whip by the new Republican majority in the great house of debate.
		This year he got two-thirds of the vote and the endorsement of most of the state's newspapers, including several who disagree with his straight-line conservative voting and his contention that what the First Amendement is really about is preserving the right of rich people and corporations to give money to the Republican Party.
	www.uexpress.com /richardreeves?uc_full_date=20021115 (640 words)

	Amazon.com: Master of the Senate : The Years of LBJ, Vol. III (Vintage): Books: Robert A. Caro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amazon.com: Master of the Senate : The Years of LBJ, Vol.
		Master of the Senate : The Years of LBJ, Vol.
		Caro, Robert A.: Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson).
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	H-Net Review: KC Johnson on Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The average age of Senators crept upwards throughout the century; by the time Johnson entered the Senate, most committee chairmen were in their late sixties or seventies.
		And Southern senators, Johnson claimed, wanted not to fan the flames of racial prejudice but to guard against the inevitable controversies between the races that would result from the enactment of civil rights legislation.
		If appeasing Russell was crucial to establishing Johnson's power in the Senate, then appeasing Texas oil and gas producers was crucial to establishing Johnson's power at home--especially as he had triumphed by only eighty-seven votes in the 1948 Democratic primary.
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