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

Publication: The Wilson Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tommy the Cork: Washington's Ultimate Insider, from Roosevelt to Reagan.(Book Review)

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By David McKean. Steerforth. 347 pp. $25

It's likely that every great capital city, at least every one with some form of representative government, attracts legions of ambitious, well-motivated, politically adept young people eager to play parts on the political stage. Some of them succeed, to the lasting benefit of their nation. Unfortunately, the mixture of money, power, and malleable laws that is characteristic of capitals also draws fixers--clever operators who ignore many of the ethical rules that governments and the legal profession adopt in the interest of fair play.

Lawyer Thomas Corcoran (1900-81) exemplified both types of capital citizen. "Tommy the Cork," as Franklin Roosevelt called him (just...

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