An American Requiem by James Carroll

An American Requiem by James Carroll

An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political, and religious. Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father had abandoned his own dream of becoming a priest to rise through the ranks of Hoover's FBI and then become one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived the privileged life of a general's son, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope, all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents' house. He worshiped his father until Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights movement, turmoil in the Catholic Church, and then Vietnam combined to outweigh the bond between father and son. These were issues on which they would never agree. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer and husband with children of his own did he come to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In this work of nonfiction, the best-selling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was, literally, born to tell. An American Requiem is a benediction on his father's life, his family's struggles, and the legacies of an entire generation.

Carroll, James: - James Robert Carroll has been a journalist for more than four decades, working for news organizations in Ohio, Massachusetts and California before arriving in Washington in 1983. He has covered nearly every conceivable subject in the nation's capital, first for Knight-Ridder Newspapers and then for The Louisville Courier-Journal and Gannett Newspapers. He currently is Washington bureau chief for Capital News Service at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Among other honors, Carroll has won several awards from the National Press Club, the National Press Foundation and the Society of Professional Journalists. Carroll's work has taken him to nearly every state and to many nations, from Israel to China. He has appeared on MSNBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, C-SPAN, Sirius XM's POTUS Channel, and Fox and is a regular contributor to Bloomberg News. His articles also have appeared in USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. In addition, Carroll is the author of The Real Woodrow Wilson: An Interview with Arthur S. Link, Editor of the Wilson Papers. Carroll has had a long interest in American presidents, dating from his youth as a volunteer in presidential campaigns in the 1960s. As a reporter in Washington, he has covered every presidency since Ronald Reagan's as well as the candidacies of many would-be presidents. Ireland likewise has been an abiding passion. He has visited the nation many times and has written news and travel stories from Ireland for American newspapers and has reported from Washington on Irish affairs. He and his wife, Carol Vernon, have two daughters, Fiona and Brenna, and live in Alexandria, Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9780395779262
ISBN 10	039577926X
Titel	An American Requiem
Autor	James Carroll
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Houghton Mifflin
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-04-04
Seitenanzahl	288
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