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...SMITH : HERO OF THE CITIES by Matthew and Hannah Josephson. 505 pages. Houghfon Mifflin. $7.95. THE FIRST HURRAH: A BIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED E. SMITH by Richard O'Connor. 318 pages. Putnam. $6.95. In nostalgic political memory, Alfred Emanuel Smith appears as a jaunty, cigar-chomping, roughhewn Irishman in a brown derby, the first serious Roman Catholic candidate for President, and the man who later turned on his aptest pupil, Franklin Roosevelt, to become a noisy opponent of the New Deal. All that is true as far as it goes-except that Smith was no more than half Irish...
Behind the Lines. Joe Kennedy had the fortune to be born in a Boston where, the Yankee hegemony notwithstanding, political and financial power was beginning to be possible for an Irishman. His grandfather had fled the potato famine in 1848; his father, Patrick J. Kennedy, became a saloon owner and Massachusetts state senator. Pat Kennedy had the money and savvy to send Joe to Boston Latin School and then across the river to Harvard, deep behind the Brahmin lines. Emerging from Harvard in 1912, Kennedy told friends that he would be a millionaire at 35-and he just made...
...WHISTLE IN THE DARK is Thomas Murphy's drama of a brutish Irishman and his four sons who move in on a fifth son attempting to flee their world of tooth and claw by moving to England. The play is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace, stating truths about human nature that one would often rather forget...
...WHISTLE IN THE DARK is Thomas Murphy's drama of a brutish Irishman and his four sons who move in on a fifth son who has tried to flee their world of tooth and claw by moving to England. The play is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace, stating truths about human nature that one would often rather forget...
...biggest selling point though is Hayes himself. He is a tall, good-looking Irishman with sad blue eyes. He has a little of whatever it is that makes Richard Burton so popular. Soft spoken, but with an incredible memory for faces and names, he appeals to the ladies. One woman he met at a coffee the other night had taken care of him when he was a six-year-old playing in the tot lot. He had not seen her in 21 years, but he remembered her. She will vote for him. Ironically her number one vote for City Council...