Posted in Inscribed on Nov 24th, 2008
“Politics is a jungle” —John F. Kennedy,
in his notes for Profiles in Courage
On an August night in 1943, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy’s patrol boat PT-109 was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and burst into flames. Badly wounded, Kennedy saved a fellow crewman in a rescue that earned him a Purple Heart and the Navy and [...]
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Posted in Inscribed, signed on Oct 27th, 2008
“One of these mornin’s you’s gonna rise up singin’.”
George Gershwin had wanted to write an opera about the African-American experience long before he read DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy in 1926. But in Heyward’s portrayal of life on “Catfish Row”—based on the very real Cabbage Row in Heyward’s hometown of Charleston—Gershwin recognized his material. He immediately [...]
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