Interview with Timothy McNulty and Brendan McNulty, co-authors of The Meanest Man in Congress
The Meanest Man in Congress is a biography of the late Congressman Jack Brooks, who represented Beaumont and southeast Texas from 1953-1995. He was one of the most influential and powerful congressmen of the twentieth century. Yet very in the general public knew who he was. He played a key role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and was the only southerner on the House Judiciary Committee to vote for it. He drafted the articles of impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee for Richard Nixon in 1974. He wrote legislation that forced the standardization of computer…
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