Richard N Goodwin

A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics, now with a new introduction by the author. Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten years later in the aftermath of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Over the course of one extraordinary decade, Goodwin orchestrated some of the noblest achievements in the history...

A play on the confrontation between Galileo and his arch-opponent, Pope Urban VIII, the head of a church threatened by Galileo's new natural science. The two men are tied by affection, but separated by doctrine.