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Appointment At Bu Dop, Brian Wright O'Connor
Appointment At Bu Dop, Brian Wright O'Connor
New England Journal of Public Policy
Brian O’Connor writes about his father, who was killed in Viet Nam. He methodically documents his father’s battle with Viet Cong forces, recreates the circumstances that led to his death, and describes his unquenchable to-the-death devotion to his squad. Lieutenant Colonel Mortimer Lenane O’Connor, the son concludes, was “a gung-ho infantry officer, a West Pointer with a sense of gallows humor who believed that large-force engagements were the quickest way to conclude the war.” Earlier this year the University of Pennsylvania awarded his father posthumously a doctorate for the thesis he was working on when he put everything aside and …
The Happy Accident, Robert Manning
The Happy Accident, Robert Manning
New England Journal of Public Policy
In "The Happy Accident," Robert Manning's delightful memoir of his early newspaper days in Binghamton, New York, we are brought back to an earlier and seemingly more innocent time when New England — and America — stood on the threshold of change. The moral of going home, it seems, is that as much changes, much never changes — something we should perhaps remember in these last feverish days of the nineteen eighties.
Home To New England, Alfred Alcorn
Home To New England, Alfred Alcorn
New England Journal of Public Policy
In "Home to New England," Alfred Alcorn adds a very personal dimension to our ongoing search for the characteristics that define the New England ethic. Visiting his father-in-law's home, built in Chelmsford in 1690, became an experience "a little like touching history itself, the vernacular history of a simple, hardworking and yet cannily sophisticated people."
Refugee In New England, James C. Thomson Jr.
Refugee In New England, James C. Thomson Jr.
New England Journal of Public Policy
James C. Thomson, Jr., in his vivid memoir "Refugee in New England," shows how our sense of place is central to the way in which we see ourselves and to our sense of belonging.
My Life With The Fbi, James Carroll
My Life With The Fbi, James Carroll
New England Journal of Public Policy
When I was a child, the FBI was everywhere in my world and I loved my world more for that. My first remembered experience of entertainment — one could even say of story — was listening on the radio in the late forties to "The FBI in Peace and War," and I can still hum its theme. My older brother Joe and I, and then Brian, too, when he came along, huddled together by the old Philco, riveted because those tales of gangbusters, spy catchers, and G-men evoked the world of our father, who was himself an FBI agent. He …