Word: jameses
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MORTAL FRIENDS by James Carroll
As Novelist James Carroll shapes it Brady wages his war against the fates over a vast and richly colored terrain, ranging rom the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s to the Kennedy era of the '60s. Brady plunges into the rebellion: he captains a bloody ambush and emerges as...
There he rides the coattails of a rising Boston politician named James Michael Curley. Because the Curley machine needs Boston's Italian North End in its pocket, Brady arranges a pardon for a notorious Sicilian Mafioso named Gennaro Anselmo. Dishonesty continues to lure Brady: he builds an insurance empire...
Nevertheless, James Carroll - an ex-priest but still a committed Catholic - is not simply lashing out at his alma mater.
In the New York Times, Columnist James Reston asserted that had the ruling been in effect a few years ago, it could have prevented publication of the Pentagon papers by the Times and the pursuit of Watergate by the Washington Post. In the case of the Pentagon papers, he says...