Titan of the Senate, William Doyle
Titan of the Senate, William Doyle
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Titan of the Senate
Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of Bipartisanship

Author: William Doyle

Narrator: Kevin Stillwell

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Center Street

Published: 09/20/2022


Synopsis

If greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times—discover the life and career of the senator through archival material, original research, and exclusive interviews. This is the dramatic story of a conservative champion who shaped modern America—by leading a Golden Age of Bipartisanship and passing more legislation than any other Senator in the post-Vietnam era. Senator Orrin Hatch co-wrote the most sweeping civil rights bill since the 1960s, launched a health insurance program for 25,000,000 uninsured children, co-created the generic drug industry, and championed the greatest HIV/AIDS legislation in American history, while sponsoring or co-sponsoring over 750 pieces of legislation. Based on interviews with Hatch and many of his Senate colleagues plus over 10,000 pages of research from the U.S. Senate Historian's files, this is also the story of a leader who envisions a New Golden Age of Bipartisanship for the future of American politics.

About William Doyle

William Doyle is a New York Times bestselling author and a TV producer for networks including HBO, the History Channel, and PBS. Since 2015 he has served as Fulbright Scholar, Scholar in Residence, and Lecturer on Media and Education at University of Eastern Finland. He is also a Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow and advisor to the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by CASPER on August 26, 2022

Mr. Doyle has published a biography of United States Senator Orin Hatch of Utah. Senator Hatch is largely seen as bland and forgettable, but perhaps that is simply due to a lack of flash as proposed by Doyle. The late Senator Hatch was a conservative standard-bearer virtually opposed to all progress......more

Goodreads review by Prentice on February 14, 2024

I don’t usually leave reviews, but this book was a disservice to Orrin Hatch. Politics aside, this book spent barely a hundred pages on Hatch, out of two hundred, and a significant amount of those aspects were heavily quoted from primary accounts. Hatch was a very long-serving senator, with huge imp......more

Goodreads review by Jesse H. Cockerham on May 16, 2023

great read a deep dive into bipartisanship which could be lacking at this point in the history of congress makes you realize there are great republican legislature like john Mccain it's to bad they are dieing out romney murkowski and susan collins might be the only gop moderates left in the age of m......more

Goodreads review by Alex on December 07, 2022

This two star review is a reflection on the author not the subject. The book rehashed the same text over and over. It was as if the author didn’t have enough material to write a book. And the introduction was ridiculous and unnecessary.......more