Remembering America - by Richard N Goodwin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.</b> <p/> Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten years later in the aftermath of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Over the course of one extraordinary decade, Goodwin orchestrated some of the noblest achievements in the history of the US government and bore witness to two of its greatest tragedies. His eloquent and inspirational memoir is one of the most captivating chronicles of those turbulent years ever published. <p/> From the <i>Twenty-One </i>quiz-show scandal to the heady days of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign to President Lyndon Johnson's heroic vote wrangling on behalf of civil rights legislation, <i>Remembering America </i>brings to life the most fascinating figures and events of the era. As a member of the Kennedy administration, Goodwin charted a new course for US relations with Latin America and met in secret with Che Guevara in Uruguay. He wrote Johnson's historic civil rights speech, "We Shall Overcome," in support of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and formulated the concept of the Great Society and its programs, which sought to eradicate poverty and racial injustice. After breaking with Johnson over the president's commitment to the Vietnam War, Goodwin played a pivotal role in bringing antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy to within a few hundred votes of victory in the 1968 New Hampshire primary. Three months later, he was with his good friend Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles the night that the young senator's life--and the progressive movement that had rapidly brought about such significant change--came to a devastating end. <p/> Throughout this critical decade, Goodwin held steadfast to the passions and principles that had first led him to public service. <i>Remembering America </i>is a thrilling account of the breathtaking victories and heartbreaking disappointments of the 1960s, and a rousing call to action for readers committed to justice today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"More powerfully than any other chronicler of the 60's, Mr. Goodwin has re-created the soaring hopefulness that suffused American liberals in the early years of the decade and the sense of loss and betrayal that enveloped them at its end." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Intimate, percipient, wry, marvelously anecdotal and often profound in its grasp of politics, character and paradox. John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson walk through these pages like major characters in a big novel." --Norman Mailer <p/>"This is more than a history, more than a memoir. It is a literary achievement that wonderfully relives its time." --John Kenneth Galbraith <p/>"<i>Remembering America </i>is an absolutely compelling book about the sixties; a beautifully accurate narrative of a man who saw it all from the inside. It was a unique period in American history--a time of hope and a time of tragedy--and Dick Goodwin has captured it all." --Tip O'Neill<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>A graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School, Richard N. Goodwin (1931-2018) began his career as a law clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter and as special counsel to the congressional subcommittee investigating the quiz-show scandals. During the Kennedy administration, Goodwin served as deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs and as secretary-general of the Peace Corps. In 1964, he became a special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, for whom he wrote the landmark "We Shall Overcome" speech in support of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and also originated the Great Society programs. After leaving government service, Goodwin taught at Wesleyan University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and wrote several books, including <i>Promises to Keep </i>and <i>Remembering America.</i> He died in 2018 and is survived by his wife, Doris Kearns Goodwin. <br>
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