What Is Congress by Jill Abramson & David Malan
- Author: Jill Abramson
- Illustrator: David Malan
- Author: Who HQ
SKU: 3948353
Congress, the branch of government closest to average Americans. Kids can get an overview of what congress truly is.
Jill Abramson, bestselling author and the first woman to become executive editor of The New York Times, is a self-confessed political junkie. She wrote this to be the book she wished she had as a young reader. What Is Congress? clearly and concisely explains what exactly Congress does, and includes fascinating stories, including the bloody beating in the Senate of a lawmaker in the pre-Civil War days, the Watergate hearings, and Senator Joe McCarthy's shameful witch hunt of Communists. Kids may gain an interest in running for Congress one day when they learn fun facts, such as the special candy desk in the Senate, and the fat that all lawmakers can bring their dogs to work.
Chapters include:
- What Is Congress?
- In the Beginning
- Capital vs. Capitol
- How It Works
- Trouble from the Start
- Breaking Away
- Reconstruction
- A Big Step Backward
- Looking Out for Ordinary People
- Power Shifts to the President
- The Red Scare
- A Fairer America
- Watergate
- Dividing Lines
- Timelines
- Bibliography
- 112 pages
- Early chapter book format
- 80 black and white illustrations
- 16-page photo insert
- Part of the What Was? series
- Recommended for ages 8 to 12
