Grappling With Ghosts: Childhood Memories from Postwar Ireland and London

From time as a child in an orphanage to writing speeches for presidents, James Harvey traveled a rocky road to live out the American dream. In this memoir of his childhood, Harvey recreates the strange and remote realities of the daily struggles of life in post-war rural Ireland and bomb-shattered London. Ireland, just 30 years removed from 700 years of British domination, had scarcely emerged from the 19th century. London, meanwhile, shrouded in fog and greasy coal soot with armless and le...