Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1762
The Dorchester Reporter last week carried a story about Douglas MacKinnon. Dorchester Reporter, April 5, 2012: Memoir with a Message: Dot native MacKinnon tells of rough-and-tumble journey. By Bill Forry.
The article begins: “Douglas McKinnon, a son of Dorchester, begins his memoir as a riveting, rat-a-tat account of a childhood punctuated by near-daily narrow escapes from the undertow drag of his reckless parents, whose taste for drink and excess in 1960s Boston was surpassed only by their ambivalence about their own kids’ survival.”
For the rest, take a look at:
http://www.dotnews.com/2012/memoir-message-dot-native-mackinnon-tells-rough-and-tumble-journey
Douglas MacKinnon is former White House and Pentagon official who spent three years working in a Joint Command. Douglas MacKinnon was also press secretary to former Senator Bob Dole. Douglas MacKinnon has published hundreds of columns in every major paper in the country, and Douglas MacKinnon is heard and seen regularly on radio and television as a political commentator. Douglas MacKinnon is also an author and novelist.
He is the author of The Apocalypse Directive, Vengeance Is Mine, and Rolling Pennies in the Dark.
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