Timothy McNulty's guest appearances

Timothy McNulty

Hopeton Hay Podcasts

Barack Obama

Craig Johnson

Virginia Cumberbatch

Toni Morrison

Frederick Douglass

Megan Abbott

Alex Segura

Theodore Roosevelt

Don Winslow

Walter Mosley

Michael Ray

Jackie Robinson

Rion Amilcar Scott

Nikki Giovanni

Sandra Cisneros

OwlTail

Brendan McNulty

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 systems sold to the federal government helping to breakup IBM's dominance of the market. What makes this book fascinating is it provides a behind the scenes look at how some of the nation's most critical legislation was passed.

Interview with Timothy McNulty and Brendan McNulty, co-authors of The Meanest Man in Congress