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Richard N. Goodwin (1931–2018)

Autore di Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties

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Richard Naradof Goodwin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 7, 1931. He graduated from Tufts University in 1953 and from Harvard University Law School in 1958. He joined the staff of a House subcommittee investigating rigged television quiz shows in 1959. He was a senior adviser and mostra altro speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He left the Johnson administration in 1965 when its' involvement in Vietnam grew. He began to write and speak against the war. He taught at Wesleyan University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wrote for several publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He wrote several books including The Sower's Seed: A Tribute to Adlai Stevenson, Triumph or Tragedy: Reflections on Vietnam, The American Condition, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties, and Promises to Keep: A Call for a New American Revolution. His play, The Hinge of the World, had its premiere in Guildford, England, in 2003. It was produced in Boston in 2009 as Two Men of Florence. He died after a brief bout with cancer on May 20, 2018 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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A fantastic read. I learned quite a bit as the author included notes about some of the things going on in the period, and would love to go see a showing of this play.
 
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avarisclari | Jul 13, 2018 |
2177 Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties, by Richard N. Goodwin (read 3 Jan 1989) The author was first in his class at Harvard Law in 1958, clerked for Justice Frankfurter, worked for JFK, wrote LBJ's best speeches, was active in the 1968 campaigns of both McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy--and has been out of public life since. This book is his 1988 account of those years. He is an egotist, and his writing is annoying in its deliberate inclusion of crude four-letter expletives. Even Nixon had the common sense to replace such with "expletive deleted" but Goodwin deliberately keeps them in and even uses them in straight narrative. The years he writes of were major years, and it is good to read of them periodically.… (altro)
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Schmerguls | 1 altra recensione | Jul 3, 2008 |
History, Goodwin, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
 
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SBmeier | 1 altra recensione | Apr 15, 2008 |

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6
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