For anyone interested in understanding why one of the great institutions of democratic government in the world — the United States Senate — has become so dysfunctional and paralyzed by partisanship, Ira Shapiro’s recently published book The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis (Public Affairs, New York 2012), should be mandatory reading — not only by pundits and political science classes, but by every member of today’s Senate.
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