TY - BOOK AU - Wright, Jim TI - Balance of power: presidents and congress from the Era of McCarthy to the age of Gingrich SN - 1570362785 AV - 002 E 839 W951b 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - Atlanta PB - Turner Publishing N2 - Welcome to Washington, 13. -- Prairie roots, 19. -- Learning the ropers, 34. -- Texans and big drams, 41. -- Race, rayburn, recession, 52. -- Ike and the world, 60. -- High hopes, 67. -- Airplanes and ideals, 81. -- Camelot, 89. -- Never young again, 99. -- Johnson ascends, 110. -- Gret society, 126. -- That bitch of a war, 139. -- Bring Us togerther, 151. -- Playing to win, 164. -- Making peace, 180. -- The watergate syndrome, 196. -- Saturday night aftermath, 211. -- Ford's era of good feelings, 221. -- A year of conflict and crisis, 231. -- Bicentennial year, 251. -- A man from Georgia, 257. -- Energy and example, 281. -- The road to Camp David, 298. -- Coach and the peacemakers, 310. -- Elections 1980 : Hate, fate, and klomeini, 326. -- Emergence of the great communicator, 341. -- Reagan's revolution, 356. -- Recession, deficits, and ideology, 370. -- Glimpses of the world, 383. -- Bumpy road to peace, 398. -- Central American quagmire, 412. -- Speaker four big challenges, 439. -- Giving peace a chance, 457. -- Power : Its use and limits, 457. -- The King of America we want, 452 ER -