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Doris Kearns Goodwin needs no prodding. Her generational saga pays generous tribute to the near silent partners in Irish-American history's most important , merger. She offers little that is new and no shocks. If anything, Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and the wife of former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, softens the impact of the familiar political and sexual scandals that litter the path from the old sod to the Oval Office. Her approach is to balance the requirements of scholarship (Goodwin was a professor of government at Harvard) with the demands of the literary marketplace...
...Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys is a lively compromise, although it is curious how Goodwin can discuss John F.'s political career without mentioning Theodore Sorensen, an early Kennedy ghostwriter who gave the rising star his literary twinkle. She writes best about the Fitzgeralds, their immigration to Boston and rise from poverty, first as grocers and saloonkeepers and then as politicians and power brokers. The most famous was John Francis Fitzgerald, the newspaperboy who went on to make headlines as "Honey Fitz," the roguish mayor of Boston...
...distance to the White House from the Hub was even greater. Biographer Goodwin navigates it swiftly. Like other historians, she finds the elder Kennedy's fingerprints all over the political controls. "It was like being drafted," J.F.K. later told Columnist Bob Considine. "My father wanted his eldest son in politics. 'Wanted' isn't the right word. He demanded it." He also molded the Kennedy image by promoting J.F.K.'s essentially ghostwritten Profiles in Courage and having his friend New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock lobby the Pulitzer board of advisers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize...
Third Period--6, N, Marge Sanford (Rosa, Fitzgerald) 1:14; 7, N, Fitzpatrick (Woolley, Koyanna) 9:31; 8, N, Rice (Cardinale, Lucy Goodwin) 11:12 Penalties--N, Woolley (holding) 3:20; N, Rosa (checking...
...Finley published Homer's Odyssey, which won the Goodwin Prize of the American Philological Association. He has also written a family history about his parents and his years growing up in New Hampshire and Cambridge...