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Books in Brief - 2.(Review)(Brief Article)
John Paul II: A Personal Portrait of the Pope and the Man, by Raymond Flynn, with Robin Moore and James Vrabel (St. Martin's, 224 pp., $22.95)
Flynn, the charming former mayor of Boston and ex-ambassador to the Vatican, tells us very candidly what his book is not: It is not a biography, or an analysis, or a polemic about the current Pope's place in history. Flynn views it, rather, as a profile based on his own experiences with Pope John Paul II, dating back to a 1969 visit to Boston of then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyla.
Traditionally, the writer of a profile must at least affect a certain distance from his subject; there is none of that here. What Flynn has produced ...
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