MARC C. JOHNSON AND DEENA MANSOUR

As part of the Montana 250th Commission's celebration of the United States' 250th birthday, we are honored to feature Montana statesman Mike Mansfield in The Treasure State's Book Club. Join us on Oct. 9 at 6:30 p.m. for "Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate," hosted by author Marc Johnson. A study of politics but also an analysis of different approaches to leadership, this is a portrait of a U.S. Senate that no longer exists — one in which two leaders, while exercising partisan political responsibilities, could still come together to pass groundbreaking legislation — and a reminder of what is possible.

In June 1939, three years before he was elected to Congress, Mike Mansfield celebrated American democracy in a speech he delivered at a

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