The Hammer: Tom DeLay
Subtitle: God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: September 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781586482381
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Biography: historical; Political; Congress.; U.S. Congress (General); United States; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Legislators; Biography/Autobiography; USA; DeLay, Tom D.,; Government - U.S. Government; Biography; United States.; 1947-; House
First sentence: Tom DeLay was born in Laredo, Texas, on April 8, 1947, to a family of hard-luck Southerners who scrabbled their way out of the Great Depression by means of welding torch and ball peen hammer, not diploma and pedigree.