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Article: GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK: Daniel Patrick Moynihan - A Biography.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- September 1, 2000
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GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK: Daniel Patrick Moynihan--A Biography
By Godfrey Hodgson Houghton Miffin Co., $38.00
GODFREY HODGSON, A FRIEND and confidant of Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his family for almost 40 years, frets at the start of this new biography about putting their long-standing friendship at risk by trying to write truthfully. Not to worry. If Moynihan takes offense at this tribute, his skin is even thinner than anyone knew. Gentleman From New York opens with a chapter titled, "The Prophet," and closes with "The Legislator as Magnifico." Hodgson twice quotes journalist Michael Barone's assessment of Moynihan as "the nation's best thinker among ...