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Richard N. Goodwin

Born

in Boston, MA, The United States

December 07, 1931

Died

May 20, 2018

Website

http://richardngoodwin.com/

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Richard Goodwin was born in Boston on 7th December, 1931. He graduated from Tufts University in 1953. He then went on to study law at Harvard University.

Goodwin joined the Massachusetts State bar in 1958. He worked for Felix Frankfurter before being appointed as special counsel to the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1959 John F. Kennedy appointed Goodwin as a member of his speech writing staff. The following year he became Kennedy's assistant special counsel. Goodwin was also a member of Kennedy's Task Force on Latin American Affairs and in 1961, was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, a position he held until 1963. As one of Kennedy's specialists in Latin-Amer ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 325 ratings · 41 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties 4.17 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1988 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Promises to Keep: A Call for a New American Revolution 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hinge of the World: In Which Professor Galileo Galilei, Chief Mathematician and Philosopher to His Serene Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and His Holiness Urban VIII 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American condition 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Triumph or Tragedy: Reflections on Vietnam really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The sower's seed; a tribute to Adlai Stevenson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“History would not make itself. It had to be made and remade, and by us. It was the oldest lesson of civilization, one we had known and lived, and seemed somehow, for a time, to have forgotten.”
― Richard N. Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties

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“for me to react to Pearl Harbor by translating experience into headlines and sentences. I had already begun to think of words as the world made manifest. I soon understood,”
― Richard N. Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties

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