Volume 34, Number 7 · April 23, 1987
Twice-Told Tale
By Francis Russell
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon and Schuster, 932 pp., $22.95
Columbia Point, that spit of land—once a dump—extending out into Dorchester Bay, contains an old sewage pumping station, the new overextended brick bulk of Boston's University of Massachusetts, an ill-considered public housing project now in the process of demolition, and at the point's very tip the Kennedy Museum and Library. Seen from the mid-distance of the Fitzgerald Expressway the museum's confluence of gleaming white cubes and curves and dark glass set against the background of Boston Harbor is haunting. If one did not know what it was, one would want to stop to find out.
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