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ContentsIndex
Front Cover:
Whorl o Stairs, Trustees Oice(1839–41), Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.Photograph by Henry Plummer. 
Back Cover:
Photographs by Daniel Orr
100 Years o Pragmatism 36Arican Market Women 21American Conluence 15An American Hometown 17Ancient Greek Lyrics 45The Anthropology o News and Journalism 26The Arab Public Sphere in Israel 28Buddy Holly 8Chietaincy, the State,and Democracy 23Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria 25Cultural Critique and the GlobalCorporation 27Emerson and Thoreau 36The Faces o Intellectual Disability 35FARMood 4Food and Everyday Liein the Postsocialist World 40Frank Julian Sprague 15Frenchness andthe Arican Diaspora 22From Protest to Challenge 23Gendering the Arican Diaspora 20A Guide to the LatinAmerican Art Song Repertoire 43Guilt, Suering, and Memory 39The Heidegger Reader 33Heroes and Victims 40How ColonialismPreempted Modernity in Arica 24Islamic Central Asia 29The Islamic Manuscript Tradition 29Italy in Early American Cinema 11IU Press Online 19The Jazz Fiction Anthology 7 Jazz Religion, the Second Line, andBlack New Orleans 7The Last Century o Sea Power 14Law and Truth in Biblical and RabbinicLiterature 31Lives behind the Laws 45Making Music and Having a Blast 10The Making o a Reorm Jewish Cantor 31Mexicanos 43Monotheism and Tolerance 34A Mosaic o Believers 37Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-CenturyRussia 42Neo-Kantianism in ContemporaryPhilosophy 33The New Arican Diaspora 24The New Authoritarianism in theMiddle East and North Arica, The 27New Directions in Jewish Philosophy 32New Perspectives onHorned Dinosaurs 44Nollywood 25Not Normal, Illinois 16Observational Cinema 26Ousmane Sembène 13Palestinian Politics ater Araat 28Perorming Messiaen’s Organ Music 42Perorming SouthArica’s Truth Commission 22Plato’s
Republic
32The Prophet’s Ascension 30Queer Women andReligious Individualism 37Religion, Metaphysics,and the Postmodern 34Rural Free 18Rush, Rock Music,and the Middle Class 9Russian Feminism 41Shakespeare and theAmerican Musical 11A Short History o Arican Philosophy 35Stillness and Light 5Strengthening Congress 1Teaching Environmental Literacy 44Ugly War, Pretty Package 2UN Ideas That Changed the World 3Wagner and Cinema 12We Make a Lie by What We Give 38Wealth and the Will o God 38Women and Islamic Revivalin a West Arican Town 21Women in Power inPost-Communist Parliaments 41The World’s Parliament o Religions 30The Year’s Work inLebowski Studies 6
Arica 13, 21-25, 35Arican American 7, 20Anthropology 26, 40Art & Architecture 5, 29Asia 29Biography 13, 15Business & Economics 27Classics & Antiquity 45Cookbooks 4Cultural Studies 27Education 44Environmental Studies 44Ethnomusicology 31Feminist 41Fiction 16European History 22, 39, 40Film & Media2, 6, 11-12, 25-26Gender 20, 37, 41International Aairs 3Islam 21, 29, 30 Journalism 26 Judaica 31, 32Latin America &the Caribbean 20, 43Literature 7Memoir 18Middle East 27-29Midwest History 15Music 8-10, 12, 42-43Outdoors & Nature 18Paleontology 44Perorming Arts 11, 22Philanthropy 38Philosophy 24, 32-36Political Science1,3, 23, 27-28Railroads & Transportation 15Regional 17, 30-31, 34, 37-38Religion 30-31, 34, 37, 38Russia & EasternEurope 40-41, 42Sociology 37U.S. History 15, 43War & Military 14Women’s Studies 21, 41World History 23WWII 14
 
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Strengthening Congress
Lee H. Hamilton
October 2009
Political Science
World128 pages, 6
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9¼Cloth 978-0-253-30032-4$39.95L £33.99Paper 978-0-253-22165-0$14.95t £10.99
Lee H. Hamiltonserved Indiana in the U.S. House o Representativesrom 1965 to 1999 and is Director o The Center on Congress at IndianaUniversity Bloomington and President and Director o the Woodrow WilsonInternational Center or Scholars. He is author o 
How Congress Works and Why You Should Care
(IUP, 2004).
“Lee Hamilton, one of this country's greatestpublic servants ever, . . . challenges Congressto revitalize its special place in the Americanconstitutional system and exhorts citizens toengage this institution to realize the promise of our representative democracy.
StrengtheningCongress
is both a constructive critique of thebroken branch and a compelling call to arms for politicians and citizens alike to repair it.”—Thomas E. Mann, co-author of 
The Broken Branch
The case or reinvigorating Congress
W
ith the beneit o an insider's perspective, distinguishedormer congressman Lee H. Hamilton argues that Americaneeds a stronger Congress and a more engaged citizenry inorder to ensure responsive and eective democracy. Hamilton explainshow Congress has drited away rom the role envisioned or it in theConstitution as a body whose power and inluence would be preeminentin the American system o government. He details the steps thatCongress should take to re-establish its parity with the executive branchand become an institution that works reliably and eectively or thebetterment o the nation—reinorce congressional oversight, restore thedeliberative process, curb the inluence o lobbyists, and reduce excessivepartisanship. Concurrently, Hamilton calls upon Americans to take moreseriously their obligations and responsibilities as citizens and engage withthe critical issues acing their communities and the nation.
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