
Publications
The Dirksen Congressional Center has authored or provided financial support for several book-length publications. What follows are representative examples:
Adler, E. Scott and John S. Lapinski, eds. The Macropolitics of Congress (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006)
Baker, Richard A. and Roger H. Davidson, eds. First Among Equals: Outstanding Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1991)
Cooper, Joseph. Congress and the Decline of Public Trust (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999)
Davidson, Roger H., Susan Webb Hammond, and Raymond W. Smock, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998)
Dirksen, Everett McKinley. The Education of a Senator (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998)
Frisch, Scott A. and Sean Q. Kelly, Politics to the Extreme: American Political Institutions in the Twenty-First Century (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Jones, Frank Leith, Senator Sam Nunn: The Deliberate Statesman (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, forthcoming)
Kornacki, John J., ed. Leading Congress: New Styles, New Strategies (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1990)
LaHood, Ray with Frank H. Mackaman. Seeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics (Buffalo, NY: Cambria Press, 2015)
Mackaman, Frank H. An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2014)
Mackaman, Frank H. Campaign 1944: Everett M. Dirksen’s Bid for the White House (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019)
Mackaman, Frank H. Everett M. Dirksen's Career: A Series of Essays (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019)
Mackaman, Frank H. Facing the Post-War World: Everett M. Dirksen Abroad, 1944 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019)
Mackaman, Frank H. The Long, Hard Furrow: Everett Dirksen’s Part in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2014)
Mackaman, Frank H. Of Fakers, Flip-Floppers, Bunglers, and Cowards: Everett Dirksen’s Campaign for the U.S. Senate, 1950 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019)
Mackaman, Frank H. Quotations from Bob Michel (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2015)
Mackaman, Frank H., ed. The Senate Journals of Edward Earl Mansur, Jr., 1948-1955 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2018)
Mackaman, Frank H., ed. Understanding Congressional Leadership (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1981)
Mackaman, Frank H. and Sean Q Kelly, eds., Robert H. Michel: Leading the Republican House Minority (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019)
MacNeil, Neil and Richard A. Baker. The American Senate: An Insider’s History (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Zelizer, Julian E., ed. The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004)