Tommy the Cork Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to Reagan

Name: Tommy the Cork Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to Reagan
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ISBN: 9781586420680

ISBN-10: 1586420682

ISBN-13: 9781586420680

Edition: 2003

Authors: David McKean

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“The life and adventures of Tommy the Cork, from serving as a clerk to Oliver Wendell Holmes to helping United Fruit find ways to overthrow the government of Guatamala, make for one of the most intriguing Washington books in years. Readers with a taste for the politically picaresque will seize upon it with delight.” — Harry McPherson in Wilson Quarterly IN 1931, A YOUNG Rhode Island lawyer with middle-class, Irish Catholic roots came to Washington to clerk for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had earned the highest grades ever attained at Harvard Law School and possessed a force of personality to match his intellect. A brilliant lawyer, wily political operator, and likable rogue, Corcoran…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Publication date: 10/10/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: An Irish Ballad


The Early Years


Most Likely to Succeed


A Wonderful Education


The New Deal Years


The Coming of the New Deal


Battling Wall Street


The Little Red Schoolhouse


Frankfurter's Hotdogs


Battling Big Business


Apex of Power


The Second New Deal


Corcoran and Court Packing


The Price of Loyalty


Time to Make a Million


The War Years


A New Stage


Peddling Influence


Under Investigation


The Wiretap


The Lobbyist Years


The Key to Lobbying


The Truman Years


Foreign Policy by Other Means


Corcoran's Cold War


Family and Friends


The Late 1950s


Using the Back Door


LBJ for the USA


The Late Years


Lobbying the Court


Plenty of Action


Vietnam, Watergate, and Nixon


The Admiral


Conclusion: A Fire in His Heart


A Note on the Sources


References


Index