Chronicle - Authors

2716.4120
WCVB Collection
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December 7 1992
Aircheck Chronicle Monday December 7, 1992 Authors
Title: “Chronicle, December 7, 1992, Political Pages”. Chronicle episode on newly released books on Boston political figures. Peter Mehegan reports on ‘JFK: Reckless Youth’ by Nigel Hamilton, and critiques of the book. Includes interviews with Nigel Hamilton, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, and a clip from the movie ‘PT 109’. Mike Barnicle reports on ‘The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley’ by Jack Beatty. Includes interviews with Jack Beatty, Dr. Thomas O’Connor of Boston College, and a clip from the movie ‘The Last Hurrah’. Barnicle talks with people at the James Michael Curley Recreation Center. Barnicle gives his recommendations for the best books of 1992, including: ‘Truman’ by David McCullough, ‘What’s It All About’ by Michael Caine, ‘JFK: Reckless Youth’ by Nigel Hamilton, ‘Nothing But Blue Skies’ by Tom McGuane, ‘Outerbridge Reach’ by Robert Stone, ‘All the Pretty Horses’ by Cormac McCarthy, ‘Very Old Bones’ by William Kennedy, ‘Ted Williams: The Season of the Kid’ by Richard Cramer, ‘The Immortals’ by Michael Korda, ‘Twenty-One Selected Stories’ by Ward Just, ‘Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner’, ‘Theodore H. White at Large: Making of a President’, and ‘We Were Soldiers Once… and Young’ by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.
Credits: Story Producer: Peter Mehegan, Clint Conley; Directed By: Phil Rubin; Videographers: Bob Birkett, Zip Bradwell, Bob Oliver, David Skillicorn; Editors: Jayne Raphael, Curt Reichenbach; Kennedy’s Photo’s Courtesy of JFK Library, Boston; Managing Editor: Susan Sloane; Producer: Chris Stirling; Executive Producer: Mark Mills; Program Executive: Paul La Camera; Mary’s Hairstyle By: Leon & Co., Belmont; Mary’s Clothes Jewelry By: Ava Botelle; Additional Closed Captioning Funding Provided By: Dunkin’ Donuts; Mike Barnicle is a Boston Globe Columnist; Talk Back: (617) 455-9829; Chronicle

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