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Year |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
01 |
1980 |
Richard F. Fenno Jr. |
Home Style: House Members in Their Districts |
Little, Brown and Company |
02 |
1982 |
Allen Schick |
Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending and Taxing |
The Urban Institute |
03 |
1984 |
James L. Sundquist |
The Decline and Resurgence of Congress |
Brookings Institution Press |
04 |
1986 |
David Oshinsky |
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy |
The Free Press |
05 |
1988 |
Paul Light |
Artful Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform |
Random House |
06 |
1990 |
Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. |
Signals From the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation |
Yale University Press |
07 |
1992 |
Barbara Sinclair |
The Transformation of the U.S. Senate |
The Johns Hopkins University Press |
08 |
1994 |
Gilbert C. Fite |
Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia |
The University of North Carolina Press |
09 |
1995 |
Carol M. Swain |
Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress |
Harvard University Press |
10 |
1995 |
John Jacobs |
A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton |
University of California Press |
11 |
1996 |
William Lee Miller |
Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress |
Alfred A. Knopf |
12 |
1997 |
Robert V. Remini |
Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time |
W. W. Norton and Company |
13 |
1998 |
Julian E. Zelizer |
Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 |
Cambridge University Press |
14 |
1999 |
Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer |
Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation |
The University of Chicago Press |
15 |
2000 |
Nancy Beck Young |
Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream |
Southern Methodist University Press |
16 |
2001 |
John Aloysius Farrell |
Tip O’Neill and the American Century |
Little, Brown and Company |
17 |
2002 |
Robert Caro |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate |
Random House |
18 |
2003 |
Don Oberdorfer |
Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat |
Smithsonian Books |
19 |
2004 |
Michael J. Ybarra |
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt |
Steerforth Press |
20 |
2005 |
David M. Barrett |
The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy |
University Press of Kansas |
21 |
2006 |
Robert David Johnson |
Congress and the Cold War |
Cambridge University Press |
22 |
2007 |
William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse |
While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers |
Princeton University Press |
23 |
2008 |
Keith Finley |
Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938–1965 |
Louisiana State University Press |
24 |
2009 |
Frances E. Lee |
Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate |
The University of Chicago Press |
25 |
2013 |
Douglas L. Kriner |
After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War |
The University of Chicago Press |
26 |
2014 |
Eric S. Heberlig and Bruce A. Larson |
Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control |
The University of Michigan Press |
27 |
2015 |
Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker |
The American Senate: An Insider’s Guide |
Oxford University Press |
28 |
2016 |
Rebecca U. Thorpe |
The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending |
The University of Chicago Press |
29 |
2018 |
Julian E. Zelizer |
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society |
Penguin Press |
30 |
2019 |
Fergus M. Bordewich |
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government |
Simon & Schuster |
31 |
2020 |
Ruth Bloch Rubin |
Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the U.S. Congress |
Cambridge University Press |
32 |
2021 |
David Bateman, Ira Katznelson and John Lapinski |
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction |
Princeton University Press |