Richard N. GoodwinRessenyes

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.

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.

History, Goodwin, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson