The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937-1989

by Anthony Champagne (Author), Garrison Nelson (Author), Anthony Champagne (Author), Garrison Nelson (Author), Douglas B. Harris (Author), James W. Riddlesperger (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $34.68

  For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-protege relationships) and enmi-ties within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip.