RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. KennedyWith the assassination of his brother, Robert Kennedy inherited the hopes and aspirations of a bereft nation adopting his brother's political legacy in what became a personal quest for vindication and redemption. A highly successful and controversial political player in his own right, RFK was on the verge of gaining the Democratic Presidential nomination in the last year of his life. His assassination in 1968 at the age of 43 felled a man who had come to represent the impossible hopes and ideals of a just political system. But who was this complex man? In this definitive work, master researcher and bestselling author of celebrity biographies C. David Heymann has exposed Kennedy's inner contradictions, the machinations of his political career, his private liaisons, his enemies, and his lovers. The book is filled with major revelations, including new details about: RFK's relationship with Jackie Kennedy after JFK's death; his sexual involvement with various movie stars; what really happened with Marilyn Monroe; and his dealings with J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jimmy Hoffa, and various notorious Mafia figures. Heymann spent over five years researching this book, interviewing over a thousand friends, family members, foes, political aides, and former employees of RFK, and gathering never-before-released documents from the FBI, the CIA, and Scotland Yard, among others. The result is a fascinating portrait of an American icon whose life embraced triumph and tragedy, deception and intrigue, power and passion. |
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... telephone calls . Harris Wofford and Louis Martin had given up on their candidate making a public statement , but they conceived of a more indirect gesture : a telephone call to Coretta King . Wofford tracked down his immediate boss ...
... telephone calls . Harris Wofford and Louis Martin had given up on their candidate making a public statement , but they conceived of a more indirect gesture : a telephone call to Coretta King . Wofford tracked down his immediate boss ...
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... telephone lines . Discovering the tap , Hoover had several of his agents wire the attorney general's telephone . During an April 1961 conference between the two men , they began to argue , each accusing the other of illegal interoffice ...
... telephone lines . Discovering the tap , Hoover had several of his agents wire the attorney general's telephone . During an April 1961 conference between the two men , they began to argue , each accusing the other of illegal interoffice ...
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... telephone call after telephone call after telephone call with him . All about blowing up this Cuban muni- tions plant , trying to put that structure out of commission . Maybe obses- sion is too strong a word , but it certainly was his ...
... telephone call after telephone call after telephone call with him . All about blowing up this Cuban muni- tions plant , trying to put that structure out of commission . Maybe obses- sion is too strong a word , but it certainly was his ...
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