- 328 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book offers a meticulously researched, comprehensive chronology of the Congressional Page system, from the late 1700s to modern day. From the origins of the page system in 1774 to the period in the 1940s when Congress demonstrated an indifference towards the needs of providing the boys with supervised living arrangements, congressional pages have a storied past. It's a topic that can be amusing—for years, pages simply treated the Capitol as a their private playground to subject adults to their mischief—and sobering, as Congress continued to employ boys as young as eight years old, even after passing labor laws that prohibited it and was reluctant to provide supervised living arrangements for decades. Unlike many dry and lifeless books about Congressional history, The Children Who Ran For Congress: A History of Congressional Pages provides a lively and engaging look at the history of the page system, a topic that has largely been ignored. Based on a thorough investigation of historical documents and personal interviews, Darryl Gonzalez now tells the complete story of the young boys (and girls) who have served Congress for more than 200 years.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Overview
- Chapter Two: The Ancestors of Today’s Pages, 1774 to 1926
- Chapter Three: Congress Passively Delegates Control of Capitol Page School to Private Individuals, 1926 to 1942
- Chapter Four: Senator Burton Advocates for Pages, 1942 to 1949
- Chapter Five: Attempts at Change and Institutional Inertia, 1949 to 1982
- Chapter Six: Marginalized Groups within the Page System
- Chapter Seven: Capitol Page School Is Closed, 1982 to 1983
- Chapter Eight: Discussion
- Appendix 1: Timeline
- Appendix 2: List of Interviews
- Notes
- Index