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By Haynes Johnson and David S. Broder. 668 pp. Boston, Little, Brown, 1996. $25.95. ISBN 0-316-46969-6. A

A quarter of a century ago, a recent Rhodes scholar on his way to law school wrote a book described as an "exuberant account of the workings of the United States Senate." The book recounted how, while working as an aide to Senator Warren Magnuson in 1970, the young man shepherded a bill through Congress that established the National Health Service Corps. The title of Eric Redman's book, The Dance of Legislation (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973), was drawn from an 1885 treatise on congressional government by political-science professor Woodrow Wilson: "Once you begin the dance of legislation, you . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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