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 LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor  KF355.W27 E38 2010    AVAILABLE  
Author Eisler, Kim Isaac.
Title Masters of the game : inside the world's most powerful law firm / Kim Eisler.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 467925727
ISBN 9780312554248 (alk. paper)
0312554249 (alk. paper)
Publisher New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Description xii, 334 pages ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s Williams & Connolly -- History.
Law firms -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
Burris Collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Roots, build, grow, branch -- Hollywood on the Potomac -- The passed-over partner -- War department meets State Department -- Where is Captain Sullivan tonight? -- "Sully" sacks a veep -- Craig's gist -- The little generalist -- Another day, another dollar -- The stage manager -- The elevator operator's son -- The courtesy man -- The high watermark -- Cigars with Castro, flowers for Ferraro -- Non-Hodgkin's strikes out -- The potted plant -- No apples for the teacher -- St. Gabriel's cemetery -- Spying on the birds -- The Enquirer meets the renaissance -- Swank Hillary -- The husky football star : not! -- The fabulous Bennett brothers -- Hillary : the first client -- A summitt and a tragedy -- Pricked by a hatpin -- Elián -- Pardon us -- Goldin parachutes -- Book-sport in D.C. -- Barack atah Illinois -- Dueling hotheads -- Half-baked Alaska.
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.
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