Vast Talents, Chutzpah of Washington's Greatest Fixer
The Washington Times › April 05, 2004
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Anyone proposing to write a biography of Thomas Gardner Corcoran assumes a Herculean
task. With "Tommy the Cork," however, David McKean has not only accepted the challenge but has carried it off with remarkable success.See the full content of this document
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Vast Talents, Chutzpah of Washington's Greatest Fixer
Faced with a bewildering arrayoftriumphs,tragedies, absurdities,contra-dictions and affections, he has assembleda portrait of this brazen and brilliant Irish NewDealer that is voluminous in detail andrevealing in its frankness.
For nearly 50 years, Tommy "the Cork" (a nickname bestowed by FDR) ranged through the corridors, committee rooms and salons of Washington as a skilled legislative craftsman, a polit...See the full content of this document
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