A Case for Congress Volume 17 Lisa M. Shulman ''--Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide ''A lively

''--Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide ''A lively art history detective story that makes a missing painting come alive

using a vast arrayof primary and secondary sources as well as first-hand observation

programme presentations at annual conventions

the early attempts at law and order (which often failed or had questionable results)

and violence against women

A Case for Congress Volume 17 Lisa M. Shulman ''--Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide ''A livelyPolarized. Dysfunctional. Toxic. Broken. These are only some of the negative words Americans use to describe the United States Congress. Nowadays hardly anyone has something good to say about either the House of Representatives or the Senate, the two bodies that make up Congress. But is this common viewpoint too negative, too one sided? And is it based on solid evidence or reasonable expectations? In A Case for Congress, political scholar Frances Lee