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William Kennedy (author) William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed . Kennedy's other works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Roscoe (2002) and Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2011).
Ironweed is a 1983 novel by American author William Kennedy. [ 2] Ironweed received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [ 3] and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. [ 4] It is included in the Western Canon of the critic Harold Bloom. [ 5] The novel was adapted into a 1987 film of the same name .
Douglas Kennedy was born in New York City in 1955, the son of an Irish Catholic commodities broker and a German Jewish production assistant at NBC. [4] [5] He was educated at The Collegiate School and graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1976. He also spent a year studying at Trinity College Dublin.
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers is the eighth and best-known book by historian Paul Kennedy. It reached number six on the list of best-selling hardcover books for 1988. [18] In 1988 the author was awarded the Wolfson History Prize for this work. [19] Republished: January 1989, Paperback, ISBN 0-679-72019-7, 704 pages
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-04525-3. Burner, David (1988). John F. Kennedy and a New Generation. Pearson Longman. ISBN 9780205603459. Casey, Shaun. The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009)
Randall LeRoy Kennedy (born September 10, 1954) is an American legal scholar. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard University and his research focuses on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life. He specializes in contracts, freedom of expression, race relations law, civil rights legislation ...
Paul Michael Kennedy CBE FBA (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times , The Atlantic , and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines.
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