How to Get Ahead in Washington: Lessons from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in two parts in 2022. In the winter of 1935, a freshman senator from Missouri arrived in the District of Columbia after having driven cross-country for over 1,000 miles. With almost no legislative experience or friends in Washington, he was, in his own words, “green as grass,” and as “timid as a country boy arriving on the campus of a great university for the first year.” One day, shortly after the nervous Missourian’s arrival, J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis of Illinois ambled across the Senate floor and sat down next to his junior colleague. The post How to Get Ahead in Washington: Lessons from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in two parts in 2022. In the winter of 1935, a freshman senator from Missouri arrived in the District of Columbia after having driven cross-country for over 1,000 miles. With almost no legislative experience or friends in Washington, he was, in his own words, “green as grass,” and as “timid as a country boy arriving on the campus of a great university for the first year.” One day, shortly after the nervous Missourian’s arrival, J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis of Illinois ambled across the Senate floor and sat down next to his junior colleague.
The post How to Get Ahead in Washington: Lessons from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras appeared first on War on the Rocks.
