May 06, 2011

Books

What We’ve Lost

'Daniel Patrick Moynihan,' 'Age of Fracture'

John T. McGreevy

Daniel Patrick MoynihanA Portrait in Letters of an American VisionaryEdited by Steven R. WeismanPublicAffairs, $35, 608 pp.  Age of FractureDaniel T. RodgersBelknap/Harvard University Press, $29.95, 360 pp.   How are we to think about the politics of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the maverick senator and public intellectual who died in 2003? “I am not a ‘neoconservativ (...)


 

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