Finally, after four days of grueling ballots laced with coercing, pleading, arm-twisting, bribing and finger-jabbing, Kevin McCarthy was able to flip some 20 conservative holdouts to become his supporters - or at least not explicit opponents in his bid for the speaker s gravel. This kind of intraparty standoff is unprecedented in modern times.
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In a book that will be invaluable to any scholar or journalist trying to make sense of what is happening in Kashmir today, Sandeep Bamzai s Gilded Cage offers a riveting account, drawing from previously unaccessed private papers, of what transpired in the Valley between the sunset years of the British Raj and the events leading up to the dismissal and imprisonment of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on August 8, 1953.