The Austin-Boston Connection

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The Austin-Boston Connection is written by Anthony Champagne and published by Texas A&M University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1603443266 (ISBN 10) and 9781603443265 (ISBN 13).

For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the Majority Leader was from Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-prot?g? relationships) and enmities within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip.