In Voyage of Mercy, American journalist-turned-historian Stephen Puleo uses USS Jamestown’s delivery of relief supplies to Cork in 1847 as a springboard to explore how America’s response to the Great Famine transformed attitudes and international relations. “This is a story about hope generosity, and soaring goodwill against a backdrop of nearly unfathomable despair,” he writes. “It was as though Americans looked at their own children and felt the pain of Irish parents who were watching their youngsters starve.”
In the May/June 2020 issue. Click here to visit the magazine’s website