| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate. By Lewis L. Gould. (New York: Basic, 2005. xiv, 402 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-465-02778-4.)

The Most Exclusive Club, Lewis L. Gould's popular history of the modern Senate, is just that, a popular history, with all the virtues and limitations that genre entails. The narrative is engaging, informative, and covers a lot of ground. By and large, the author successfully weaves particulars about the Senate into the fabric of American history. In fact, the book can be read as a selective history of American politics in the twentieth century with a focus on the Senate. Gould mentions nearly all the key events and does not dwell long on any one topic.

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