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Congress Investigates

George Washington to January 6

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Congress Investigates

By: Elise Bean, Kyle Bule
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 Congressional investigations and hearings have been foundational to the checks and balances of the American political system’s three branches of government since the Second Congress requested documents about a military defeat from President George Washington. This book provides a deeply researched history of America through 21 of the most significant Congressional and Senate investigations, covering war, corruption, bigotry, scandal, crime, public safety, policy failures and scandal. The investigations covered include racism and corruption in the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era domestic terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan, the Teapot Dome scandal of the Warren Harding administration and the Watergate scandal of the Richard Nixon administration, the1929 stock market crash and the 2008 financial meltdown, the abuses of oversight in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare hearings, and the January 6, 2020 attack on the US Capitol.

Table of Contents
  1. The First Investigation: Challenging A Military Defeat
  2. Civil War: Exposing Incompetence, Racism, and Atrocities
  3. Ku Klux Klan: Documenting Domestic Terrorism During Reconstruction
  4. The Titanic: Probing a Disaster
  5. Teapot Dome Scandal: Battling Corruption
  6. The 1929 Stock Market Crash: Exposing Financial Wrongdoing
  7. World War II: Stopping War Profiteering, Waste, Fraud, & Abuse
  8. Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare:Abusing Congress’ Oversight Powers
  9. Valachi Hearings: Challenging the Mafia
  10. Traffic Safety: Saving Millions of Lives
  11. Fulbright Hearings: Questioning the Vietnam War
  12. Watergate: Checking Presidential Power
  13. The Church Committee: Investigating Covert Operations
  14. Love Canal: Exposing Toxic Industrial Waste Sites
  15. BigTobacco: Battling Disease and Disability
  16. 9/11 Terrorist Attack: Investigating Intelligence Failures
  17. Enron: Tackling Corporate Misconduct
  18. Financial Crisis: Taking on the Big Banks
  19. Torture: Chronicling Brutal U.S. Interrogations of War Detainees
  20. Fast & Furious: Confronting Federal Gun Walking
  21. January 6 Attack on the Capitol: Protecting the Peaceful Transfer of Power
 Americas United States War Military American History
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