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1 online resource (xxi, 580 pages) : illustrations |
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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. |
| 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A--Bobby Kennedy, To capture the full arc of his subject's life, Tye draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, and fifty-eight boxes of papers that had been under lock and key for the past forty years.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 edition. |
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Draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-552) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968. |
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United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
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United States. Congress. Senate. |
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1945-1989 |
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
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Politics and government. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States. |
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Downloadable e-Books.
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Electronic books. |
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Biographies.
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Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Tye, Larry. Bobby Kennedy New York : Random House, 2016 9780812993349 (DLC) 2016004991 (OCoLC)935987185 |
| ISBN |
9780679645207 : $60.00 |
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0679645209 : $60.00 |
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