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092    BIO|bKENNEDY 
100 1  Kennedy, Robert F.,|cJr.,|d1954-|eauthor. 
245 10 American values :|blessons I learned from my family /
       |cRobert F. Kennedy, Jr.. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bHarper, an imprint of 
       HarperCollinsPublishers,|c2018. 
300    433 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    " With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storytellers
       gift, RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a 
       tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues 
       of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality 
       that we confront today. In this powerful book that 
       combines the best aspects of memoir and political history,
       the third child of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and 
       nephew of JFK takes us on an intimate journey through his 
       life, including watershed moments in the history of our 
       nation. Stories of his grandparents Joseph and Rose set 
       the stage for their nine remarkable children, among them 
       three U.S. senatorsTeddy, Bobby, and Jackone of whom went 
       on to become attorney general, and the other, the 
       president of the United States.   We meet Allen Dulles and
       J. Edgar Hoover, two men whose agencies posed the 
       principal threats to American democracy and values. Their 
       power struggles with the Kennedys underpinned all the 
       defining conflicts of the era. We live through the Cuban 
       Missile Crisis, when insubordinate spies and belligerent 
       generals in the Pentagon and Moscow brought the world to 
       the cliff edge of nuclear war. At Hickory Hill in Virginia,
       where RFK Jr. grew up, we encounter the celebrities who 
       gathered at the second most famous address in Washington, 
       members of what would later become known as Americas 
       Camelot. Through his fathers role as attorney general we 
       get an insiders look as growing tensions over civil rights
       led to pitched battles in the streets and 16,000 federal 
       troops were called in to enforce desegregation at Ole 
       Miss. We see growing pressure to fight wars in Southeast 
       Asia to stop communism. We relive the assassination of JFK,
       RFKs run for the presidency that was cut short by his own 
       death, and the aftermath of those murders on the Kennedy 
       family. These pages come vividly to life with intimate 
       stories of RFK Jr.s own experiences, not just with 
       historical events and the movers who shaped them but also 
       with his mother and father, with his own struggles with 
       addiction, and with the ways he eventually made peace with
       both his Kennedy legacy and his own demons. The result is 
       a lyrically written book that is remarkably stirring and 
       relevant, providing insight, hope, and steady wisdom for 
       Americans as they wrestle, as never before, with questions
       about Americas role in history and the world and what it 
       means to be American."-Amazon.ca 
600 10 Kennedy, Robert F.,|cJr.,|d1954- 
600 10 Kennedy, Robert F.,|d1925-1968|xFamily. 
600 30 Kennedy family. 
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