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FORGE OF DEMOCRACY (496 pp.)-Neil MacNeil-McKay...
...complained that it made as much noise as "waves in a squall." Dickens scoffed that not even "steady, old chewers" in the House could hit a spittoon. And 19th century Americans generally referred to the House as the "Bear Garden." But the House has improved with age, writes Neil MacNeil, TIME'S chief congressional correspondent, in this entertaining account of its workings and its history...
...cover story on Congressman Wilbur Mills, which William Bowen wrote, is an example of how we work. Mills is a familiar figure to our two congressional reporters, Neil MacNeil and Loye Miller. The problem was not the usual congressional one of trying to stop the fellow from talking or getting a simple answer to a simple question; it was one of getting much at all from a reticent man who will speak candidly about taxes but doesn't enjoy talking about himself. Furthermore, Mills is a discreet politician, not given to describing how he intends to play his hand...
...MacNeil has known Mills for seven years, and so well that when he went around to interview one Congressman he was told, "What are you asking me about him for? You know him better than I do." MacNeil, who has just finished a book about the House of Representatives and has worked on ten cover stories for TIME, provided most of the material on the power structure of the House and Mills's role...
...Arkansas, who interviewed Mills's family and friends, looked over the Mills store, house and bank, and provided most of the biographical material. Miller's last cover assignment was closer to home: gathering material for the Harry Byrd cover. Both reporters are second-generation journalists: MacNeil's father was assistant managing editor of the New York Times, Miller's the editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel...