Robert Kennedy and His TimesArthur 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). |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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