Pat Moynihan: The great Catholic ‘What if…?’

The recent publication of “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary” (Public Affairs) is cause for both celebration and sadness: celebration, because his letters reintroduce us to Pat Moynihan’s scintillating intellect, sparkling wit, and penetrating insight into some the great issues of the late 20th century; sadness, because Pat was, in his time, the great Catholic “What if….?” of American public life.

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