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Robert Kennedy and his times / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- Presidential candidates--United States--Biography.
- Presidential candidates.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Politics and government.
- Legisladores--EE. UU--Biografía.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
- Local Subjects:
- Legisladores--EE. UU--Biografía.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biographie.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 1066 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978.
- Summary:
- A biography of the Senator who was assassinated in 1968, stressing the public and personal forces and events that shaped his life.
- Contents:
- The family
- The father
- The war
- The third son
- The brothers: I
- The first investigating committee: Joe McCarthy
- Interlude: William O. Douglas and Adlai Stevenson
- The second investigating committee: Jimmy Hoffa
- The second investigating committee: Walter Reuther
- 1960
- To the Department of Justice
- The pursuit of justice: J. Edgar Hoover
- The pursuit of justice: the mob
- The pursuit of justice: civil rights
- The pursuit of justice: Ross Barnett and George Wallace
- The pursuit of justice: Martin Luther King
- The politics of justice
- Justice and poverty
- The Kennedys and the Cold War
- The CIA and counterinsurgency
- The Cuban connection: I
- Robert Kennedy and the missile crisis
- The Cuban connection: II
- Missions to the third world
- The brothers: II
- Corridors of grief
- Stranger in a strange land
- The vice presidency
- To the senate
- The foreign policy breach: Latin American
- Vietnam legacy
- The breach widens: Vietnam
- The breach widens: South Africa, New York
- Time of troubles
- Tribune of the underclass
- Images
- The dilemma
- The decision
- The journey begins
- The long day wanes
- To sail beyond ... the western stars, until I die.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- National Book Award for Biography and Autobiography, 1979.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007. Robert Kennedy and his times.
- ISBN:
- 0395248973
- 9780395248973
- 0618219285
- 9780618219285
- OCLC:
- 3869043
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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