Memorial Bridge Author:James Carroll From the gangster-ridden politics of Depression-era Chicago to the intrigue and glamour of wartime Washington; from the triumph of virtue in the defeat of Hitler to the moral chaos of Vietnam; from inner-circle turf battles in the Pentagon to tear-gas conflict in the streets; from a man's inbred solitude to the story of an extraordinary love... more »--MEMORIAL BRIDGE arc across the pivotal decades of the twentieth century and pans the division of the American heart.
This is the story of Sean Dillon, who escapes from the rough world of the Chicago stockyards to become an agent in J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, and then rises to the very top of military intelligence on the eve of its greatest challenge -- and the nations' greatest failure. Dillon is an Irishman, a Catholic, a lawyer obsessed with justice, a man who fierce integrity sets him apart even in his youth. As he advances, finally becoming a air force general charged with an impossible duty, he find himself an outsider to everyone but Cass, the indomitable yet deep feeling woman with whom he has built his life. She alone sees what his defiant adherence to principle is costing him.« less