Daniel Patrick Moynihan : a portrait in letters of an American visionary / edited with an introduction by Steven R. Weisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003.

Contributor:

Weisman, Steven R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--United States--Correspondence.

Statesmen.

United States--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States. Congress. Senate--Correspondence.

Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003--Correspondence.

Moynihan, Daniel P.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (731 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A unique publishing event: The private letters of a great American statesman and philosopher?available to the public for the first time?offer extraordinary insight into both the man and our times

Contents:

"I think we are going to make history"

"Nine pages of dynamite"

"We were going to change this country"

"Welfare is a bankrupt and destructive system"

"The erosion of authority will continue"

"... a president they trust and admire"

"Something perhaps to be forgiven"

"The Indians have the bomb"

"Dear Yorker dear New Yorker"

"Therefore they will decline"

"We have a prospect of peace on earth"

"I propose that Kuwait be liberated... "

"What is to be done?"

"Thus ends the progressive era"

"I write to say farewell and thanks"

My father the writer / Maura Moynihan.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-87815-8

9786612878152

1-58648-920-8

OCLC:

694729327