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Two-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard G. Lugar has been one of the most widely respected foreign policy experts in Congress for over three decades. In this illuminating profile, John T. Shaw examines Lugar’s approach to lawmaking and diplomacy for what it reveals about the workings of the Senate and changes in that institution. Drawing on interviews with Lugar and other leading figures in foreign policy, Shaw chronicles Lugar's historic work on nuclear proliferation, arms control, energy, and global food issues, highlighting the senator’s ability to influence American foreign policy in consequential ways. The book presents Lugar’s career as an example of the role Congress can play in the shaping of foreign policy in an era of a strong executive branch. It demonstrates the importance of statesmanship in contemporary American political life while acknowledging the limitations of this approach to governance.

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John T. Shaw's Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate delivers on his commitment to examine this long-serving Indiana senator as an important player in the foreign policy process. Shaw argues that Senator Lugar stands out in the modern U.S. Senate as a member who seeks to shape and affect American foreign policy for the mid- and long-term future benefit of the nation... A significant piece of reporting, description, and analysis that will be useful as a case study for legislative and American foreign policy scholars. David Hadley, Wabash College Makes a strong case that Senator Lugar belongs among the upper echelon of senators by focusing on Lugar's sustained activities regarding nuclear weapons, energy policy, foreign aid, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and agriculture and global food crises. Andrew Downs, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Director, Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics An account that is well-titled. Dick Lugar is a true 'statesman of the Senate' who, from the Reagan years to the present, has had a major influence on US foreign policy. George P. Shultz

"""John T. Shaw's Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate delivers on his commitment to examine this long-serving Indiana senator as an important player in the foreign policy process. Shaw argues that Senator Lugar stands out in the modern U.S. Senate as a member who seeks to shape and affect American foreign policy for the mid- and long-term future benefit of the nation... A significant piece of reporting, description, and analysis that will be useful as a case study for legislative and American foreign policy scholars."" David Hadley, Wabash College ""Makes a strong case that Senator Lugar belongs among the upper echelon of senators by focusing on Lugar's sustained activities regarding nuclear weapons, energy policy, foreign aid, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and agriculture and global food crises."" Andrew Downs, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Director, Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics ""An account that is well-titled. Dick Lugar is a true 'statesman of the Senate' who, from the Reagan years to the present, has had a major influence on US foreign policy."" George P. Shultz 9780253001931_med""In this well-researched account, ... Shaw focuses on the senator's interests and actions during his three decades in the Senate ... Attention is also given to Lugar as a truly bipartisan politician ... Shaw gives a convincing description of Lugar's 'considerable legislative legacy.'"" - Publishers Weekly"

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John T. Shaw has covered Congress since 1991 as a congressional correspondent and vice president with Market News International and as a contributing writer for the Washington Diplomat magazine. He is the author of The Ambassador: Inside the Life of a Working Diplomat and Washington Diplomacy: Profiles of People of World Influence. He has been a Hoover Institution Media Fellow and is a frequent commentator for C-SPAN and public radio.

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