About the Author:
James Aloisi, an attorney with the Boston law firm Goulston & Storrs, has served as assistant attorney general of Massachusetts and assistant secretary of transportation under Governor Michael Dukakis. He is the author of The Big Dig and lives in Boston.
Review:
His parents fled starvation in Ireland, his grandson sent Americans into outer space. John Fitzgerald, best known as the grandfather of President John F. Kennedy, deserves to be known as a pivotal figure in Boston's turbulent history. James Aloisi in this well-researched and thoroughly engaging book brings to life Fitzgerald and his tumultuous era. Fitzgerald led Boston's transformation from a cloistered enclave of Cabots and Lowells, to a welcoming home to sons and daughters from around the world. --Robert J. Allison, author of A Short History of Boston and The Crescent Observed: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815.
Would that politics, in its best meaning, would regain the full life that this book so perfectly describes. Characters abound. But so does character. --William M. Bulger, former Senate President, Massachusetts General Court, and former President, University of Massachusetts.
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