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After John F. Kennedy's assassination, Robert Kennedyformerly Jack's no-holds-barred political warrioralmost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother's murder, and by the nation's seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the country's pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed eighty-two days of his campaign, Americans...
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RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A fascinating, elegiac account of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era s most important leaders from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit ( Chicago Tribune ). With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream , Margolick examines their unique bond, both in life and in their tragic assassinations,...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In this probing biography, American Experience presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. Beginning with Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, the film explores his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his successful run for the U.S. Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In this probing biography, American Experience presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. Beginning with Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, the film explores his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his successful run for the U.S. Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In this probing biography, American Experience presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. Beginning with Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, the film explores his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his successful run for the U.S. Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The "definitive account" ( Washington Post ) of Robert F. Kennedy's seminal presidential campaign. 85 Days is veteran Washington journalist Jules Witcover's masterpiece of political reportage. It brilliantly captures a lost moment in time when the politics of conviction seemed to converge with America's youth movement in opposition to the Vietnam War. At its center was the charismatic Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the slain President John F. Kennedy....
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures. Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK: His Words for Our Times, a celebration of Kennedy's life and legacy, was published to enormous acclaim. Now, a quarter century later, this classic volume has been thoroughly edited and updated. Through...
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A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Relive the promise of hope and change for the furture that was to become the rally cry of Robert F. Kennedy, the third Kennedy son earmarked for the presidency. Cultivating the most dedicated of friends as well as the most ruthless of political and personal enemies, learn of the shy insider, devoted father, and ruthless politician, in the most complete portrait of the man.
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Random House
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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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
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball. With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby, Matthews returns with a gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes portrait of one...
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Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Few events have been the subject of more conspiracy theories than the assassinations of the two Kennedy brothers. Indeed, a great many people consider that there were other individuals than Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan involved in both murders. Was a shot fired from Dealey Plaza’s grassy knoll? Why did Jack Ruby shoot Oswald? Was it the CIA, the Soviets, Cuban nationalists or the Mafia that arranged John Kennedy’s assassination? Was Robert...
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Phocion Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Robert F. Kennedy: The Brother Within , first published in 1962, is a lively account of the life and career of the younger brother of John F. Kennedy. Robert, or "RFK," part of the politically important Kennedy family of Massachusetts, served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 (under his brother and then Lyndon Johnson); he was a dedicated supporter of civil rights for African-Americans and also fought the corruption prevalent in organized...
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English
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Few writers have immersed themselves in the world of the Kennedys as completely or successfully as C. David Heymann, whose biographies of Jackie, Robert, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Caroline together have sold millions of copies and have shed light on the private lives of the most prominent members of this iconic American family. Now he draws on more than two decades' worth of personal interviews, as well as previously unavailable reports and briefs...
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Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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What if Kennedy survived Dallas? President John F. Kennedy has lived through the ambush in Dealey Plaza. America holds its collective breath, seeing its president nearly executed in broad daylight. But as the country marches on, the office of the President finds itself under a much more insidious type of fire. Political scandal, an endless war, and a country coming apart at the seams take the 1960's in a terrifying new direction, and both John and...
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Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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A selection of more than 300 images collected by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (many never seen before) that capture the formative years of a uniquely American dynasty and detail the family's progress as it grows from a pair of turn-of-the-century newlyweds into a populous, vibrant clan of hopeful young men and women on the brink of their brilliant destinies.
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Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the FBI director traces their shared political years through their parallel rises and controversial deaths and considers the roles played by such figures as Joe McCarthy and Martin Luther King.
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