Peddling Influence: Thomas Tommy the Cork Corcoran and the Birth of Modern Lobbying by David McKean

Peddling Influence: Thomas Tommy the Cork Corcoran and the Birth of Modern Lobbying

David McKean

376 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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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 among the highest grades ever attained at Harvard Law School and possessed a force of persona...

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