Richard Francis Fenno Jr. was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work on the U.S. Congress and its members. He was Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester. He published numerous books and scholarly articles focused on how members of Congress interacted with each other, with committees, and with constituents. Political scientists considered the research groundbreaking and startlingly original and gave him numerous awards. Many followed his research design on how to follow members from Washington back to their home districts. Fenno was best known for identifying the tendency — dubbed "Fenno’s Paradox" — of how most voters say they dislike Congress as a whole, but they trust and reelect their local Congressperson.--Wikipedia
This was extra great. Super awesome. I’m really sad I didn’t buy more of this series years back when I found them at John Bale. I think I bought 4 volumes. It’s material for Amherst college history department. They are short collections that deal with a single issue; excerpts from government hearings, interviews, biographies are laid out to give as many perspectives as possible. No conclusions. I really enjoyed this.
Interesting to learn what is going on in peoples minds when setting stages of history. It was a little hard to make through as it was more like reading journal snippets than a history book or nonfiction novel.