Rent Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed - The Man Who Broke the Filibuster

Synopsis

"The most influential speaker of the House most people have never heard of…Reed makes for good copy…Grant has managed to rescue Reed from oblivion and to capture the raucous political atmosphere in which Reed did battle" (Jonathan Karl, The Wall Street Journal).

In a scholarly and fast-paced narrative, Grant describes the last decades of the nineteenth century in America—an era of rampantly corrupt politics where votes were bought and sold, Congress was paralyzed, an era of stupendous growth, financial panics, land bubbles, and populist protests. He follows the story through the career of Speaker of the House Thomas Reed, a neglected but fascinating figure, ripe for discovery.

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