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O'Rourke, William Andrew was born on December 4, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of William Andrew and Elizabeth (Kompare) O'R.
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“During the first three months of 1972 a trial took place in the middle district of Pennsylvania: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA versus Eqbal Ahmad, Philip Berrigan, Elizabeth McAlister, Neil McLaughlin, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick, Joseph Wenderoth. The defendants stood accused of conspiring to raid federal offices, to bomb government property, and to kidnap presidential advisor Henry Kissinger. Six of those seven individuals are, or were, Roman Catholic clergy—priests and nuns. Members of the new ‘Catholic Left.’”—from the introduction When The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left was originally published in 1972, it remained on The New York Times Book Review “New and Recommended” list for six weeks and was selected as one of the Notable Books of the Year. Now, forty years later, William O’Rourke’s book eloquently speaks to a new generation of readers interested in American history and the religious anti-war protest movements of the Vietnam era. O’Rourke brings to life the seven anti-war activists, who were vigorously prosecuted for alleged criminal plots, filling in the drama of the case, the trial, the events, the demonstrations, the panels, and the people. O’Rourke includes a new afterword that presents a sketch of the evolution of protest groups from the 1960s and 1970s, including the history of the New Catholic Left for the past four decades, claiming that “[a]fter the Harrisburg trial, the New Catholic Left became the New Catholic Right.” “O’Rourke’s book on the Harrisburg trial was a classic when it first appeared and remains a classic of trial reporting, an account even forty years later that is still pertinent to our contemporary situation. His new afterword is a gem of condensed history. It is a boon to journalists, historians, and political analysts, as well as the general reader, to have this book back in print.” —David Black, author of The King of Fifth Avenue and The Extinction Event Reviews for the first edition: “. . . a paean to the seven religious revolutionaries, a rueful but loving acknowledgment of their ‘brave and foolish letters,’ and a solemn threnody for the Catholic left, ‘broken by the mortar and pestle of this trial.'" —New Republic “[The book is] in my opinion, a discovery, not so much about the facts of the trial but about what the antiwar priests and nuns of today mean to Catholic youth.”—Herbert Mitgang, The Progressive "This is not only the best volume on any of the recent political trials. . . but a clinical x-ray of our society’s condition." — Garry Wills, The New York Times Book Review
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The meekness of Isaac, like Joye's A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man, is a novel of experience that is itself an experience. Two boyhood friends, sons of Mid-America-Jake, an army veteran, and Brian, who is resisting the draft- meet in New York City after a war has separated them, and there they come of age.
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During the coal-miners strike in England in the early 1980s, two Americans--a mild-mannered assistant professor and a fiery graduate student--meet on an airplane on the way to Nottingham, England, and come face to face with the impact of Thatcherism. IP.
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This revised volume reveals how the presidential campaign worked during the build-up to the last US election. Looking forward to campaign 2000, the books looks at characters such as Colin Powell and Ross Perot, and features a new chapter titled From Monica to Milosevic, 1998-1999.
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William O'Rourke's earlier book, "Campaign America '96: The View from the Couch," was greeted with wide praise. James Ledbetter wished aloud in the "Washington Post" that: "For the 2000 campaign, someone should give O'Rourke a national weekly column." And that came to pass. With a new Introduction and extensive Afterword, "Campaign America 2001: The View from the Couch," collects and expands O'Rourke's commentary on the longest presidential campaign in U.S. istory, from speculation that Hillary Rodham Clinton might run for a senate seat to the cliffhanger election results.
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O'Rourke, William Andrew was born on December 4, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of William Andrew and Elizabeth (Kompare) O'R.
Bachelor of Arts, University Missouri at Kansas City, 1968;Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, 1970.
He is the editor of On the Job: About Work by Contemporary American Writers (Random House, 1977) and the co-editor of Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years (U of Notre Dame P, 2009). His book, Campaign America ‘96: The View From the Couch, first published in 1997 (Marlowe & Co), was reissued in paperback with a new, updated epilogue in 2000. A sequel, Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch, was published in 2001 (PreviewPort Editions).
Born in Chicago and raised in Kansas City, Mo., he attended University of Missouri–Kansas City, graduating in 1968 and completed an M.F.A. at Columbia University in 1970. He then moved to teaching at various universities. He wrote a weekly political column for the Chicago Sun-Times from 2001 till 2005, as well as, over the years, short nonfiction and criticism for The Nation, The New York Times, Commonweal, the Chicago Tribune, and other periodicals.
( “During the first three months of 1972 a trial took pla...)
(During the coal-miners strike in England in the early 198...)
( "In the first few pages of William O'Rourke's gripping ...)
( For undergraduate courses in Human Relations, Applied ...)
(The meekness of Isaac, like Joye's A Portrait of the Arti...)
(William O'Rourke's earlier book, "Campaign America '96: T...)
(This revised volume reveals how the presidential campaign...)
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. Hardbound, 435 pages.)
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Author: The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, 1972, The Meekness of Isaac, 1974, Idle Hands, 1981, Criminal Tendencies, 1987, Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970-1992, 1993, Notts, 1996,Campaign America '96: The View From the Couch, 1997, Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch, 2001, On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir, 2006. Editor: On the Job, 1977, Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, 2009.
His first book, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left (1972), covered the trial of the a group of religious anti-war activists, known as the "Harrisburg Seven," and his account was heralded by Garry Wills in the New York Times Book Review as "the best volume on any of the recent political trials" and "a clinical X ray of our society’s condition." He followed up his court reporting with his first novel, The Meekness of Isaac (1974), while working as a laborer at Feller’s Scenery Studio in the South Bronx. O'Rourke taught journalism at Newark State College (now Kean University) from 1973–74, before moving to Rutgers–Newark (journalism and creative writing) and then Mount Holyoke College (creative writing) in South Hadley, MA. In 1981, he joined the English department at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the founding director of its graduate creative writing program in 1990-91 and continues as professor and the editor of its national literary journal, the Notre Dame Review.
Member National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (national county), Authors Guild, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, National Book Critics Circuit.
Married Marion Teresa Ghilarducci, July 9, 1986(divorced, January 15, 2010). 1 child, Joseph Ghilarducci.