Peter Quinn is the author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America, Banished Children of Eve, and the Detective Fintan Dunne trilogy. He is the winner of the 2015 Seamus Heaney Award from NYU and has won the American book Award.
Terry Golway is a senior editor at POLITICO States. He is the author of Washington’s General: Nathaniel Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution and Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics.
This event will be hosted by Elizabeth Stack, Institute of Irish Studies and History Department.
Reviews
"Exceptional … The author’s pungent style, refusal to romanticize, and affinity for historical details all blend to make Banished Children of Eve an achingly vibrant panorama of ethnic feuds and struggles." —Los Angeles Times on Banished Children of Eve
Golway’s revisionist history chips away at Tammany Hall’s calcified reputation and reveals that the Democratic machine that produced Boss Tweed-era corruption was also a force for worthy reform. —Amy Finnerty, The New York Times Book Review