Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed the Man Who Broke the Filibuster

by James Grant, James Grant, James Grant

Book Overview

James Grant's enthralling biography of Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House during one of the most turbulent times in American history--the Gilded Age, the decades before the ascension of reformer President Theodore Roosevelt--brings to life one of the brightest, wittiest, and most consequential political stars in our history. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a volatile era of rampantly corrupt politics. It was a time of both stupendous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416544933
• ISBN13: 9781416544937
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"