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The Realignment
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The Cost of Consensus Politics
Marshall: I appreciate you referencing Robert Carro's LBJ biographies because they're not just a story of 20th century America and the personal biography of LBJ, but they're also a meditation on power and how it works. What did writing and researching this story teach you about power, corruption, how DC works? Marshall: No, you didn't have 30 years to ruminate on that. But very much, don't you read Master of the Senate? You think, why can't someone figure out how to make Congress or the Senate, the extremely dysfunctional Senate work?
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