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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

Greeley has a historian’s instincts, perhaps stemming from his training as an archivist (though he ended up, he says vaguely, in business and market research). But this is not a hagiography. He has done an enormous amount of research, carefully documented the text, and produced a bibliography 13 pages long.