The Speaker Who Locked up the House: a novel about Tom Reed and the raucous 51st Congress

The year is 1890, the place the House of Representatives in Washington where progressive Republican Speaker Thomas B. Reed presides over a Congress in which the dying embers of the Civil War flare up again as he confronts Southern White Supremacists in his determination to end their power. Told as a novel, it is a story of murder, romance, passions personal and political, wartime grudges and religious dilemma, told against the background of Washington’s marbled halls, desperate alley slums,...