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New York Revisited (1992), Shaun O’Connell
New York Revisited (1992), Shaun O’Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
The works discussed in this article include: City of the World: New York and Its People, by Bernie Bookbinder; New York, New York, by Oliver E. Allen; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time, by Thomas Bender; The Heart of the World, by Nik Cohn; The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York, by Peter Conrad; After Henry, by Joan Didion; Literary New York: A History and Guide, by Susan Edmiston and Linda D. Cirino; Our …
Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America (1993), Shaun O’Connell
Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America (1993), Shaun O’Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
The works discussed in this article include: The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958, by Jack Beatty; JFK: Reckless Youth, by Nigel Hamilton; Textures of Irish America, by Lawrence J. McCaffrey; and Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, by James M. O'Toole.
Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 9, no. 1 (1993), article 9.
Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America, Shaun O'Connell
Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
The works discussed in this article include: The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958, by Jack Beatty; JFK: Reckless Youth, by Nigel Hamilton; Textures of Irish America, by Lawrence J. McCaffrey; and Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, by James M. O'Toole.
The Vision Thing, Shaun O'Connell
The Vision Thing, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
In "The Vision Thing," Shaun O'Connell reviews a number of books whose subject matter is not merely the presidential election of 1988, but the impact of image politics in the age of the thirty-second sound bite. He quotes Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death: "Just as the television commercial empties itself of authentic product information so that it can do its psychological work of [pseudotherapy], image politics empties itself of authentic political sustenance for the same reason."
The works discussed in this article include: All by Myself: The Unmaking of a Presidential Campaign, by Christine M. Black …