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Getting to the Root of the Bard

By Bree Hocking
Roll Call Staff
March 20, 2006, Midnight

Back in the late 1980s, a book landed Matthew Cossolotto, a former speechwriter to then-Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas), on the front pages of newspapers across the country.

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