Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Subtitle: a portrait in letters
By: edited by Steven R. Weisman
Contributors: Weisman, Steven R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9781586488017
Other titles: Portrait in letters
Description: Collects the private letters of an American statesman who not only represented New York in the Senate but also served in key positions under four presidents.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "I think we are going to make history"; title: "Nine pages of dynamite"; title: "We were going to change this country"; title: "I do not like many of the things going on..."; title: "A season of unrest, disorder, and turmoil"; title: "...a president they trust and admire"; title: "Something perhaps to be forgiven"; title: "The Indians have the bomb"; title: "Dear Yorker dear New Yorker"; title: "Therefore they will decline"; title: "We have a prospect of peace on earth"; title: "I propose that Kuwait be liberated..."; title: "What is to be done?"; title: "I was the political laureate"; title: "I write to say farewell and thanks".