John William McCormack [electronic resource] : a political biography / Garrison Nelson.
"Before the house had Tip O'Neill, there was John McCormack. How did this man, with an eighth grade education and a false family history, become Speaker of the House of Representatives, and later next in line to be President of the United States? In this exhaustive political biography, Garrison Nels...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
2017.
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John William McCormack: A Political Biography |
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Contents:
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- Introduction November 25, 1963: The Troubling Introduction Irish Emigration and the Cauldron of Yankee Boston The Reinvention of John McCormack Entering Political Life: Models, Mentors, and Harriet The Crash, the Depression and the New Deal FDR's Second Term: Congressional Resistance and Foreign Policy Anxieties The AustinBoston Connection Created to Preserve FDR's Agenda Preparedness, World War II and the Atomic Bomb Harry Truman: A Poker Pal in the White House The Unhealed Early Wounds: McCormack and Kennedy in the US House The Eisenhower Interlude and the McCormack-Kennedy Rivalry The Kennedy Nomination and Election and Speaker Rayburn's Last Year Speaker McCormack and President Kennedy The Kennedy Assassination: Next in Line to LBJ The Great Society Congress: The Liberal Apex and Its Demise The Unraveling Begins as the Democratic Edifice Cracks John McCormack's Last Congress It's Time Mr. Speaker as the AustinBoston Connection Survives for a While Index.