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Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Audiobook, by Robert M. Lichtman Play Audiobook Sample

Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Audiobook

Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Audiobook, by Robert M. Lichtman Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Joe Barrett Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666165760

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

22

Longest Chapter Length:

49:23 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:54 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

30:14 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office, Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation's founding, concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from Congress.

Barred by Congress begins with an exhaustive review of the numerous congressional exclusion and expulsion cases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before focusing on the stories of the last three members-elect to be excluded from Congress: a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American—each an outsider in American politics—excluded notwithstanding election by the voters. Lichtman illuminates each of these three remarkable individuals with a detailed biographical sketch. Brigham H. Roberts was a Utah Mormon whose exclusion from the House of Representatives in 1900 was fueled by a nationwide anti-Mormon campaign. Victor L. Berger, a Socialist Party leader was excluded in 1919 and 1920. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the House of Representatives from 1945 until his exclusion in 1967.

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About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.