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Very good in Very good jacket. xxi, [1], 475, [5] pages. A Note on Sources. Interviews. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed on the title page: With Appreciation for your interest in politics--Ira Shapiro. Ira Shapiro is a Senior Advisor with Albright Stonebridge Group's East Asia & Pacific practice, where he assists clients in formulating trade and investment strategies across Asia, and globally. A specialist in trade law and policy, he has extensive experience serving clients in and from Japan. Ambassador Shapiro served as Chief U.S. Trade Negotiator with Japan and Canada, and as General Counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under President Clinton. In these roles, he was centrally involved in completing the negotiations of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the multilateral Uruguay Round and successfully resolved contentious bilateral disputes between the U.S. and Japan on automobiles and semi-conductors. As a partner at the law firm Greenberg Traurig, Mr. Shapiro advised clients on international trade matters, market access, and intellectual property rights. He also played a key role in the legal team that won landmark victories in World Trade Organization cases against China, representing the U.S. motion picture, recording, and publishing industries. Mr. Shapiro served twelve years in senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate and helped the Presidential candidates select Vice Presidential running mates in 1992 and 2000. Mr. Shapiro is the author of The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis, a critically acclaimed narrative history of the U.S. Senate in the late 1970s. Indiana Senator Evan Bayh gave up his seat in the U.S. Senate because, in his words, "There is too much partisanship and not enough progress--too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem solving....Even at a time of enormous challenge the people's business in not being done." In this book, Ira Shapiro narrates the final four years of the Senate's era of greatness, which was followed by the relentless move to the right of the Republican Party and the steep decline of legislative body that had set a formidable example for democracies the world over. It is the story of the statesmen who helped steer America during the crisis years of the late 1970s, transcending partisanship and overcoming procedural roadblocks that have all but crippled the Senate since their departure. Derived from a Kirkus review: From a Washington insider, an edifying examination of the last four years of the Senate's "era of greatness"-1977 to 1980. The class of '62 presided over the Senate during the two ensuing decades that wrought the great civil-rights legislation, cut off funding for the Vietnam War, propounded environmental-protection laws and oversaw the Watergate hearings, among other epic national battles. Shapiro, now an international trade law lawyer in Washington, concentrates on the tail end of that brave, progressive and fluidly bipartisan run, when Robert Byrd of West Virginia acceded as majority leader, inheriting the inspired leadership mantle of LBJ and Mike Mansfield before him. By 1977, with the election of Jimmy Carter, the Senate had regained its democratic footing since being unsettled by the "imperial presidency" of Richard Nixon, and was receptive to Carter's urging for strengthening ethics in government. Despite Carter's tendency to circumvent legislators' input altogether, Byrd's diverse, youngish, dynamic Senate passed the ethics code, met the energy crisis, deregulated airlines, raised the minimum wage, passed the Panama Canal treaties, took on labor law reform, saved New York City and Chrysler from financial collapse, protected Alaska wilderness land and agreed to the peace proposal between the rancorous parties in the Middle East. All of these Herculean efforts required the experience and cajoling of now-legendary senators like Moynihan, Javitz, Kennedy, Ribicoff, Muskie, Church and Mondale....
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Very good in Very good jacket. xxi, [1], 475, [5] pages. A Note on Sources. Interviews. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page: To Henry--With appreciation for your long public service. Ira. Ira Shapiro is a Senior Advisor with Albright Stonebridge Group's East Asia & Pacific practice, where he assists clients in formulating trade and investment strategies across Asia, and globally. A specialist in trade law and policy, he has extensive experience serving clients in and from Japan. Ambassador Shapiro served as Chief U.S. Trade Negotiator with Japan and Canada, and as General Counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under President Clinton. In these roles, he was centrally involved in completing the negotiations of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the multilateral Uruguay Round and successfully resolved contentious bilateral disputes between the U.S. and Japan on automobiles and semiconductors. As a partner at the law firm Greenberg Traurig, Mr. Shapiro advised clients on international trade matters, market access, and intellectual property rights. He played a key role in the legal team that won landmark victories in World Trade Organization cases against China, representing the U.S. motion picture, recording, and publishing industries. Mr. Shapiro served twelve years in senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate and helped the candidates select Vice Presidential running mates in 1992 and 2000. Mr. Shapiro is the author of The Last Great Senate, a critically acclaimed narrative history of the U.S. Senate in the late 1970s. Indiana Senator Evan Bayh gave up his seat in the U.S. Senate because, in his words, "There is too much partisanship and not enough progress--too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem solving....Even at a time of enormous challenge the people's business in not being done." In this book, Ira Shapiro narrates the final four years of the Senate's era of greatness, which was followed by the relentless move to the right of the Republican Party and the steep decline of legislative body that had set a formidable example for democracies the world over. It is the story of the statesmen who helped steer America during the crisis years of the late 1970s, transcending partisanship and overcoming procedural roadblocks that have all but crippled the Senate since their departure. Derived from a Kirkus review: From a Washington insider, an edifying examination of the last four years of the Senate's "era of greatness"-1977 to 1980. The class of '62 presided over the Senate during the two ensuing decades that wrought the great civil-rights legislation, cut off funding for the Vietnam War, propounded environmental-protection laws and oversaw the Watergate hearings, among other epic national battles. Shapiro, now an international trade law lawyer in Washington, concentrates on the tail end of that brave, progressive and fluidly bipartisan run, when Robert Byrd of West Virginia acceded as majority leader, inheriting the inspired leadership mantle of LBJ and Mike Mansfield before him. By 1977, with the election of Jimmy Carter, the Senate had regained its democratic footing since being unsettled by the "imperial presidency" of Richard Nixon, and was receptive to Carter's urging for strengthening ethics in government. Despite Carter's tendency to circumvent legislators' input altogether, Byrd's diverse, youngish, dynamic Senate passed the ethics code, met the energy crisis, deregulated airlines, raised the minimum wage, passed the Panama Canal treaties, took on labor law reform, saved New York City and Chrysler from financial collapse, protected Alaska wilderness land and agreed to the peace proposal between the rancorous parties in the Middle East. All of these Herculean efforts required the experience and cajoling of now-legendary senators like Moynihan, Javitz, Kennedy, Ribicoff, Muskie, Church and Mondale. The progressive run would come to a screeching...
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