The Senate has been in a long state of decline, writes Jentleson, public affairs director at Democracy Forward and former deputy chief of staff to Sen.
He ably punctures the propaganda its advocates created to defend it (primarily a tool to allow the South from being outnumbered in Congress by the North, first on slavery, and later on civil rights)., A provocative portrait of a dysfunctional-by design, it seems-U.S. Jentleson assesses the chamber without the institutional nostalgia that tends to infect its alumni. Harts the rise and repeated mutations of the filibuster.
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