Reviews for Consequences

The average rating for Consequences based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-14 00:00:00 Michael Nesbit Had John G. Tower written a straight political memoir in 1990 he would have had an interesting story to tell. He was the first Republican Senator from a state of the old Confederacy since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1961. I might have liked to have heard about his life from his childhood as the son of a preacher born in 1925, his outstanding war service in the Navy in World War 2 and his attraction to the Republican party in Texas which at that time was a skeleton organization in the 40s. Tower spent a majority of his time in a diatribe against his former colleagues and especially Sam Nunn of Georgia who was the prime mover in Tower's defeat as Secretary of Defense for President George H.W. Bush. The way he writes about Nunn he was the prince of darkness. No doubt politics played a big part in his defeat, but Tower himself was known quite openly as a boozer and a womanizer and all that became part of the public record. Tower was married twice and his second wife did him no good at the hearings. Tower who was a professor of political science at Midwestern University when he was chosen as the GOP candidate against Lyndon B. Johnson who was running for a 3rd term and at the same time for Vice President with John F. Kennedy. JFK and LBJ won and there was a special election for Johnson's seat. Something like 65 Democrats filed in a wide open bipartisan special election and Tower was the only Republican. He won against those odds, but through his entire career he was in what was considered a marginal seat. The Democrats were the dominant party at that time. Some mention is made of his four campaigns before he retired in 1985 Tower sadly emerges as something of a crybaby in this book. Still it is of interest and you might enjoy it.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-24 00:00:00 Tomas Buteler A fairly decent "intermediate" textbook on committees. Although the authors present three hypotheses for the purpose and functionality of committees, it seems only discussed in the first chapter and nowhere else. (Nowhere else explicitly, I suppose arguably it is implicit in chapter 3 while discussing the different "types" of committees.) The third edition has far less on the history of committees in the US. The authors cite their second edition for a thorough review of the subject, which seems odd to me.