LOOKING FOR JIMMY in the NEW YORK TIMES & THE WASHINGTON POST

Excellent reviews in yesterday’s New York Times and Washington Post for Peter Quinn's Looking for Jimmy:

“Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America” (Overlook, $26.95), a collection of charming essays by Peter Quinn, a former speechwriter for Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, serves as a timely reminder that controversy over immigration exists very much as part of a continuum.

"This exceptionally thoughtful and interesting inquiry into Irish America, Peter Quinn writes, "is tentative, subjective and personal." Though it reaches certain broad judgments and conclusions about the Irish American experience, and though it draws heavily on the work of others who have written about that endlessly interesting subject, its primary source is Quinn and his family..."