Mike Mansfield Majority Leader: A Different Kind of Senate 1961-76

About this book

The story of Mike Mansfields influential fifteen-year reign as Senate Majority Leader is colored with some of the most important events of this century: the election of John F. Kennedy the Kennedy and King assassinations student and political unrest of the late Sixties Vietnam Watergate the Nixon resignation and numerous important pieces of legislation from the era among them the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Valeo Secretary of the Senate under Mansfield writes about the Senate and Mansfields role in national affairs from 1961-76. He argues that Mansfield was instrumental in shaping a more egalitarian kind of Senate than that of the 1950s when Lyndon B. Johnson was Majority Leader.