"Many academic studies of the last twenty years use large-N quantitative studies of roll-call voting and partisanship to make a case for why Congress is broken as a rule-making and functioning institution of governance. In Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process, political scientist Maya L. Kornberg explores Congress beyond voting, concentrating on congressional committee hearings as the legislative concourse...

In the midst of the Vietnam War, two titans of the Senate, J. William Fulbright and John C. Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. In this intriguing new work, historian Joseph A. Fry provides the first comparative analysis of these inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them. The Senators' shared aim was to alter the Johnson administration's strategy and bring an end to the war-but from dramatically different...