Volume 1, Number 10 · January 9, 1964
The Boys In The Back Room
By Karl E. Meyer
The Senate Establishment
by Joseph S. Clark. other Senators
Hill & Wang, 138 pp., $3.50 cloth
This slender book is a document of the melancholy year 1963. It memorializes the occasion when Joseph S. Clark, the exceptionally spunky Senator from Pennsylvania, finally said out loud that though democracy may reign in the Senate, a conservative oligarchy rules. His speeches over a three-day period (February 19-21) were free of pious fakery and packed with illuminating detail. Yet most of his colleagues were either annoyed or indifferent and the press tended to bury the story amid the shipping news.
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