Good condition. Hardback. George Reedu was destined to write this book, his fifth since his classic The Twilight of the Presidency. Reedy’s impoverished great grandfather, Michael Reedy, emigrated from Ireland to America in 1850, at the nadir of the Potato Famine, and his mother was a Mulvaney. “The Irish character found its expression here in the United States in politics because there was no other vehicle that offered our Potato Famine immigrants passage out of the slums,” he writes…