Thomas Oliphant, correspondent for The Boston Globe since 1968. Appeared in the movie Going Upriver as eyewitness to later-presidential candidate John Kerry's early anti-war activities. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry is a documentary on Senator John Kerrys military service during the Vietnam War and his subsequent participation in the peace movement. ... Office: Junior Senator, Massachusetts Political party: Democratic Term of office: {{{term}}} Preceded by: Paul Tsongas Succeeded by: Incumbent (2009) Date of birth: December 11, 1943 Place of birth: Aurora, Colorado Marriage: (1) Julia Thorne, divorced (2) Teresa Heinz Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United...
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(co-author) All by Myself: The Unmaking of a Presidential Campaign (1989) ISBN 0871065479
Praying for Gil Hodges : A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers (2005) ISBN 0312317611
Oliphant was one of three editors on special assignment who managed the Globe's coverage of Boston's traumatic school desegregation, reporting that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.
Bookreporter.com baseball specialist Ron Kaplan interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner ThomasOliphant about PRAYING FOR GIL HODGES, his bittersweet memoir about growing up as a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the joy of celebrating their only World Championship in 1955.
Oliphant, the Washington columnist for the Boston Globe, discusses what the team meant to the Flatbush faithful, what Jackie Robinson meant to America, and why intellectuals gravitate to the national pastime.
ThomasOliphant, the Boston Globe columnist, is a reliable bellweather of which way the liberal winds are blowing.
Bush believes, as Oliphant recognizes, that Brown stands for the proposition "that every citizen has the right to the equal protection of law." It is certainly consistent with that view (as you know, I would argue that it is mandatory) to believe that racial preferences violate that principle because they require discrimination based on race.
By contrast, Oliphant, self-described "civil rights purist," purports to agree that "every citizen" has the right to be free from discrimination but is an ardent defender of racial preferences, i.e., distributing benefits and burdens based on race.
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