Books by David McKean and Complete Book Reviews

TOMMY THE CORK: Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to Reagan
TOMMY THE CORK: Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to Reagan
David McKean, Author . Steerforth $25 (350p) ISBN 978-1-58642-068-0
Thomas G. Corcoran was one of the first modern lobbyists, a Washington power broker from his early years as an influential member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "brain trust" through his postwar career representing a host of corporate,...
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Suspected of Independence: The Life of Thomas McKean
Suspected of Independence: The Life of Thomas McKean, America’s First Power Broker
David McKean. PublicAffairs, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61039-221-1
McKean (Tommy the Cork), director of policy planning for the Department of State, reaches back into his family’s history to tell the story of revolutionary-era America through the eyes of a lesser-known founding father. History may have left Thomas...
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Watching Darkness Fall: FDR
Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors and the Rise of Adolph Hitler
David McKean. St Martin’s, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-20696-1
McKean (Suspected of Independence), the former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, delivers a perceptive group biography of four American diplomats as they witnessed—and struggled to handle—the rise of fascism in Europe from 1933 to 1941. Drawing on...
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