Steering the Senate: Volume 1 Gamm Smith Paperback Cambridge University Press

Steering the Senate\n\nThe Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789\u20132024\n\nA landmark account of how party competition drove the invention of floor leadership and created the modern Senate.\n\nGerald Gamm (Author), Steven S. Smith (Author)\n\n9780521709866, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 17 July 2025\n\n496 pages\n22.9 x 15.1 x 3.1 cm, 0.75 kg\n\n'A tour-de-force treatment of the historical development of leadership institutions in the upper chamber.' Gregory J. Wawro, Perspectives on Politics\n\nThe Senate majority and minority leaders stand at the pinnacle of American national government \u2013 as important to Congress as the speaker of the House. However, the invention of Senate floor leadership has, until now, been entirely unknown. Providing a sweeping account of the emergence of party organization and leadership in the US Senate, Steering the Senate is the first-ever study to examine the development of the Senate's main governing]