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Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Henry Holt
June 2008
On Sale: May 27, 2008
336 pages ISBN: 0805077928 EAN: 9780805077926 Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction Political
The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s
exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a
revelatory history that is especially resonant
now After John F. Kennedy’s assassination,
Robert Kennedy—formerly Jack’s no-holds-barred political
warrior—almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother’s
murder, and by the nation’s seeming 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 eighty-two days of his campaign,
Americans were inspired by Kennedy’s promise to lead them
toward 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. With new research, interviews, and an
intimate sense of Kennedy, Thurston 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.
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