title: The American Congress Reader
author:  Steven S. Smith 
description: The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular and newly updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. It compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and floor activity to broaden and illuminate the key features of the text.
zlib_text: [Acknowledgments](Contents.html#rack)
  
  
  My thanks to the individuals who consented to the interviews cited throughout
  the book. Thank you to Jim Fiest for his thoughtful suggestions. I am grateful
  to John Richard and his capable associates Monica Giannone and Katherine
  Raymond, who went through the numerous processes set forth by the diligent
  editors at Nation Books, in particular Carl Bromley, before _Unstoppable_
  could pop out of the printing presses toward a broad-based readership.
  
  
  Special thanks to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) for keeping _Who
  Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence_ , co-edited by Allen Tate and
  Herbert Agar, and so many other works by thoughtful conservatives in print.
  For a list of ISI publications visit <http://isibooks.org/>.
  
  
  ALSO BY RALPH NADER:
  
  
  _Told You So:_
  
  
  _The Big Book of Weekly Columns_
  
  
  _Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism_
  
  
  _The Seventeen Solutions:_
  
  
  _Bold Ideas for Our American Future_
  
  
  _“Only the Super-Rich Ca