| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development. Ed. by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. xii, 348 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8214-1419-4.)

This collection contains ten fairly disconnected articles revolving around the general topic announced in the book's title. Six of the essays remain comfortably within the bounds of what we might call traditional political history, that is, a history focused on elections, debates among the founders, or the actions of legislators. With a few exceptions those mostly descriptive essays will probably be of interest only to specialists in the history of formal politics in the early republic. Essays by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Christine A. Desan, Marion Nelson Winship, and the team of Richard R. John and Christopher J. Young, however, make far grander interpretive claims and strive to expand the boundaries of political history. In those four essays readers will find some new and provocative paths through the well-trod ground of 1790s political history.

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