Congressional Odyssey: The Saga of a Senate Bill

by T.R. Reid

The two year progress of an inland waterway user charge bill is followed through both houses of Congress, as an example of how legislation is created and passed

Genres: Politics

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

T.R. Reid is a reporter, documentary film correspondent and author. He is also a frequent guest on NPR's Morning Edition. Through his reporting for The Washington Post, his syndicated weekly column, and his light-hearted commentary from around the world for National Public Radio, he has become one of America’s best-known foreign correspondents.

Reid, a Classics major at Princeton University, served as a naval officer, taught, and held various positions before working for The Washington Post. At the Post he covered congress and four Presidential election campaigns, and was chief of the Post's London and Tokyo bureaus. He has also taught at Princeton University and the University of Michigan. His experiences in Japan led him to write Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West, which argued that Confucian values of family devotion, education and long-term relations, that still permeate East Asian societies, contributed to their social stability.

He is now the Post's Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief. A 2007 Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow in health, he is a member of the board of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the University of Colorado Medical School.

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had to read this book in college and it always stayed in my mind as having been *so* interesting and well written - as my mother would say, “read like a thriller.”

Just now, after 35+ years, a classmate was able to suss out the title and author for me from our former professor. T.R. Ried, no wonder it was so gripping.

Now, to purchase it and reread.
(I did remember the cover was blue.)