Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century : A Biography

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Welcomed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review -- and now in paperback -- the definitive life and times of the legendary Speaker of the House who was one of the most influential political leaders.

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in postwar America. To read this book is to revisit many of the greatest moments of late 20th-century American politics: its most colorful characters, its grandest triumphs, its most bitter ideological wars and crises.