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Author:

McKean, David.

Title:

Tommy the Cork : Washington's ultimate insider from Roosevelt to Reagan / David McKean.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Steerforth Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

viii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Corcoran, Thomas G.
Political consultants--United States.--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1953.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-348) and index.

Contents:

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 House -- 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.

ISBN:

9781586420680 (alk. paper)
1586420682 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53376059

LCCN:

2003023987

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)     ** Lending Suspended