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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819496003321

Autore

Schneider Mark R (Mark Robert), <1948->

Titolo

Joe Moakley's journey [[electronic resource] ] : from South Boston to El Salvador / / Mark Robert Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Northeastern University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-55553-808-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

328.73/092

B

Soggetti

Legislators - Massachusetts

Legislators - United States

Boston (Mass.) Biography

Massachusetts Politics and government 1951-

South Boston (Boston, Mass.) Biography

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

United States Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chronicle of a death foretold -- Southie was his hometown -- From Curley's Boston to Kennedy's America -- The invisible, the blind, and the visionary -- Moakley versus Hicks -- The man on the barbed wire fence -- The last days of the working class -- Into foreign lands -- A most unlikely hero -- The Jesuit murders -- "Wellcom Senador Smoklin" -- Death and resurrection -- Return to Santa Marta -- Man of the Century.

Sommario/riassunto

The first biography of the popular, long-serving congressman from South Boston