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Author Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948-

Title Joe Moakley's journey : from South Boston to El Salvador / Mark Robert Schneider
Published Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2013]

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Contents Chronicle of a death foretold -- Southie was his hometown -- From Curley's Boston to Kennedy's America -- The invisible, the blind, and the visionary -- Moakley versus Hicks -- The man on the barbed wire fence -- The last days of the working class -- Into foreign lands -- A most unlikely hero -- The Jesuit murders -- "Wellcom Senador Smoklin" -- Death and resurrection -- Return to Santa Marta -- Man of the Century
Summary A biography of the popular, long-serving congressman from South Boston. In November 1989 in El Salvador, six Jesuit priests and their two female housekeepers were rousted from their beds and shot as they lay face down on the ground. At first, the George H. W. Bush administration echoed the Salvadoran military's line that the rebels must have done it. When House Speaker Tom Foley tasked a senior congressman with investigating the murders, the people of El Salvador found an unlikely champion in the person of John Joseph Moakley, representative from South Boston. In this biography, the author charts one of the most unusual transformations in American politics. A native son of South Boston, Moakley was an effective and influential House member, whose greatest influence and legacy is, paradoxically, far from home in the fields of El Salvador and Central America. Though firmly, fiercely grounded in his hometown of South Boston - he never lived anywhere else - from the beginning of this investigation until his death in 2001, issues of Central American justice, peace, and economic development became Joe Moakley's cause
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Moakley, John Joseph, 1927-2001.
SUBJECT Moakley, John Joseph, 1927-2001. fast (OCoLC)fst00482842
Subject United States. Congress. House -- Biography
SUBJECT United States. Congress. House. fast (OCoLC)fst00536930
Subject Legislators -- United States -- Biography
Legislators -- Massachusetts -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
Legislators.
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081947
South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography
Subject Massachusetts.
Massachusetts -- Boston.
Massachusetts -- Boston -- South Boston.
United States.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012038709
ISBN 9781555538088
1555538088
1299558909
9781299558908