Reagan's Mandate
Anecdotes from Inside Washington's Iron Triangle
by Barbara McLennan
Listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World, Dr. McLennan holds a Ph.D. in Political Science as well as a JD. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Information and Analysis and as Industry Economist with the US Treasury. A former association executive, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and the College of William and Mary, author, and lecturer on tax, international trade, investment, and telecommunications regulation, she has testified before the US Congress on tax, trade and investment issues.
Dr. McLennan is widely published, having throughout her career prepared technical and policy papers on investment, trade and tax issues. She has published five books, four law review articles, more than a dozen research reports, nine contributions to books, and numerous magazine and academic journal articles.
Dr. McLennan has been a professor at several universities. Her academic publications include a text book on comparative political systems, a major contribution to the teaching literature which was used in university courses for over ten years. This book received favorable reviews, described by the publisher as “a break-through book, cohesive yet wide-ranging in nature and, in general, a superb synthesis with original conclusions of the best in contemporary comparative politics research.” It was published in two separate editions, Comparative Politics and Public Policy, (Duxbury Press, 1980) and Comparative Political Systems: Developed and Developing Nations, (Duxbury Press, 1975). As editor and contributor she also published two books of readings, Political Opposition and Dissent (The Dunellen Company, 1973), and Crime in Urban Society (The Dunellen Company, 1970).