Robert Kennedy and His Times

Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1978 - Legislators - 1066 pages

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMES is "a picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding his vulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates in society by his life experiences and sufferings" (Los Angeles Times).

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ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMES

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In the elegiac spirit of A Thousand Days—and with access to the family papers—Schlesinger has mounted a massive attack on the Robert Kennedy conundrum (shy/aggressive, compassionate/ruthless) and ...

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Schlesinger writes very clear and precise....

Contents

• The Family: 3
• The Father: 21
• The War: 41
• The Third Son: 63
• The Brothers I: 90
• The First Investigating Committee Joe McCarthy: 99
• Interlude William O Douglas and Adlai Stevenson: 121
• The Second Investigating Committee Jimmy Hoffa: 137
• The Second Investigating Committee Walter Reuther: 170
• 1960: 192
• To the Department of Justice: 222
• The Pursuit of Justice J Edgar Hoover: 245
• The Pursuit of Justice The Mob: 261
• The Pursuit of Justice Civil Rights: 286
• The Pursuit of Justice Ross Barnett and George Wallace: 317
• The Pursuit of Justice Martin Luther King: 343
• The Politics of Justice: 368
• Justice and Poverty: 392
• The Kennedys and the Cold War: 417
• The CIA and Counterinsurgency: 443
• The Cuban Connection I: 468
• Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis: 499
• The Cuban Connection II: 533
• Missions to the Third World: 559
• The Brothers II: 584
• Corridors of Grief: 603
• Stranger in a Strange Land: 621
• The Vice Presidency: 646
• To the Senate: 666
• The Foreign Policy Breach Latin America: 689
• Vietnam Legacy: 701
• The Breach Widens Vietnam: 724
• The Breach Widens South Africa New York: 743
• Time of Troubles: 759
• Tribune of the Underclass: 778
• Images: 801
• The Dilemma: 822
• The Decision: 842
• The Journey Begins: 858
• The Long Day Wanes: 876
• To Sail Beyond the Western Stars Until I Die: 903
• NOTES INDEX: 917

About the author

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Robert Kennedy and His Times
• Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1978
• ISBN: 0618219285, 9780618219285
• Length: 1066 pages