The last campaign : Robert F. Kennedy and 82 days that inspired America / Thurston Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Thurston.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Presidents--United States--Election--1968.

Presidents.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt, 2008.

Summary:

After JFK's assassination, Robert Kennedy--Jack's political warrior--almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother's murder, and by the nation's inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the country's pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed days of his campaign, Americans were inspired by Kennedy's promise of a better time. And after an assassin's bullet stopped this last great stirring public figure of the 1960s, crowds lined up along the country's railroad tracks to say goodbye to Bobby. Historian Clarke provides an absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America's deepest despairs--and most fiercely held dreams--and tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened personal, racial, political, and national dramas of his times.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-310) and index.

ISBN:

0805077928

9780805077926

OCLC:

180989601

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