Masters of the game : inside the world's most powerful law firm / Kim Eisler.
2010
KF355.W27 E38 2010 (Map It)
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Author
Title
Masters of the game : inside the world's most powerful law firm / Kim Eisler.
Published
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Call Number
KF355.W27 E38 2010
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780312554248 (alk. paper)
0312554249 (alk. paper)
0312554249 (alk. paper)
Description
xii, 334 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)467925727
Summary
A veteran legal issues reporter who has covered the law firm Williams & Connelly for twenty years profiles its late founder and explains how both the firm and the lawyers he mentored came to occupy key roles in American culture and business through a unique combination of philosophical practices.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: The Firm That Runs the World
1
1.
Roots, Build, Grow, Branch
7
2.
Hollywood on the Potomac
14
3.
The Passed-Over Partner
34
4.
War Department Meets State Department
43
5.
Where Is Captain Sullivan Tonight?
50
6.
"Sully" Sacks a Veep
58
7.
Craig's Gist
67
8.
The Little Generalist
72
9.
Another Day, Another Dollar
80
10.
The Stage Manager
86
11.
The Elevator Operator's Son
91
12.
The Courtesy Man
103
13.
The High Watermark
106
14.
Cigars with Castro, Flowers for Ferraro
111
15.
Non-Hodgkin's Strikes Out
118
16.
The Potted Plant
124
17.
No Apple for the Teacher
144
18.
St. Gabriel's Cemetery
150
19.
Spying on the Birds
157
20.
The Enquirer Meets the Renaissance
163
21.
Swank Hillary
175
22.
The Husky Football Star: Not!
180
23.
The Fabulous Bennett Brothers
188
24.
Hillary: The First Client
202
25.
A Summitt and a Tragedy
208
26.
Pricked by a Hatpin
216
27.
Elian
231
28.
Pardon Us
240
29.
Goldin Parachutes
246
30.
Book Sport in D.C.
263
31.
Barack Atah Illinois
270
32.
Dueling Hotheads
277
33.
Half-Baked Alaska
285
34.
Afterword
300
Bibliography
303
Index
313