Bibliograph

Bobby Kennedy, the making of a liberal icon, Larry Tye

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Bobby Kennedy, the making of a liberal icon, Larry Tye

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-552) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bobby Kennedy

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

953006889

Responsibility statement

Larry Tye

Sub title

the making of a liberal icon

Summary

A--Bobby Kennedy, To capture the full arc of his subject's life, Tye draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, and fifty-eight boxes of papers that had been under lock and key for the past forty years. He conducted hundreds of interviews with RFK intimates--including Bobby's widow, Ethel, his sister Jean, and his aide John Siegenthaler--many of whom have never spoken to another biographer. Tye's determination to sift through the tangle of often contradictory opinions means that--Praise for----David Nasaw, --------Henry A. Kissinger From the Hardcover editionDraws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold warrior to a liberal champion of the working class, the poor, and minorities

Table Of Contents

Preface -- An RFK chronology -- Cold warrior -- Crusading -- Brother's keeper -- Getting justice -- Breaking barriers -- Cuba and beyond -- The interregnum -- Off and running -- Senator Kennedy -- Last campaign -- Epilogue: Goodbyes

Target audience

adult

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Creator