King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age
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Channel: Library of Congress · 2010 · Education
In her fascinating new book, Kathryn Allamong Jacob tells the story of how one man harnessed delicious food, fine wine and good conversation to the task of becoming the most influential lobbyist of the Gilded Age. Speaker Biography: Kathryn Allamong Jacob is the Johanna-Maria Frænkel Curator of Manuscripts at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Prior to joining the Schlesinger staff in 1996, Jacob was university archivist at Johns Hopkins University, the assistant historian of the United States Senate, archivist at the National Archives, program director for documentary editions at the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and deputy director of the American Jewish Historical Society.
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