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Schneider, Mark R. 1948-

Joe Moakley's journey from South Boston to El Salvador / [electronic resource] : Mark Robert Schneider. - Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (xvi, 293 p. :) ill. ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9781555538088 1555538088

Subjects--Personal Names:
Moakley, John Joseph, 1927-2001

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Congress. House --Biography.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Legislators--Massachusetts--Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Boston (Mass.)--Biography.
South Boston (Boston, Mass.)--Biography.
Massachusetts--Politics and government--1951-
United States--Politics and government--1989-
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E840.8.M63 / S36 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 328.73/092 B