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“David Mayhew is one of the great political scientists in America. The book does a really nice job, for lay people and for experts, of creating categories of the different types of “actions” that members of Congress have done since the start of the country. Mayhew methodically shows that many of the ideas that become the New Deal came from Robert Wagner, a member of Congress during the 1930s, rather than from President Roosevelt.” Read more...
Julian E. Zelizer, Historian
