Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes: Robert F. Kennedy's War Against Organized Crime

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Capital Books, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 359 pages
..."a compelling piece of work, strongly evocative of an era that seems, more and more, to have been one of the most extraordinary periods in our history . The unions, the mobs, the plots, the characters."Don DeLillo
 

Contents

Acknowledgments
xi
Authors Note
xiii
Preface
xv
Introduction
xix
The Father Within
3
Recruitment of a Rookie Prosecutor
15
The Emergence of Robert Kennedy
22
Learning on the Job
53
Labor and the Rackets
177
Round Two in Newport
203
A Meeting in Kennedys Office
244
Hidden Villains Tragic Heroes
258
Justice and Passion A Portrait of Robert Kennedy as Attorney General
300
Notes
331
Selected Bibliography
339
Questions to Ponder
345

My Turn in Newport Kentucky
82
A Repite in Washington
124
Politics in Justice
155

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