Senator, by Elizabeth Drew. New York: Simon & Schuster. $3.95.

By John J. Reardon, John J. Reardon is professor of American history at Loyola University of Chicago and the author of "Edmund Randolph: A Biography."

March 10, 1980

Elizabeth Drew, a Washington reporter and commentator with good credentials, has chosen freshman Iowa lawmaker John C. Culver as the centerpiece of her inside look at the workings of the congressional upper house.