By Larry Tye
ISBN-10: 0812993349
ISBN-13: 9780812993349
From the New York Times bestselling writer of Satchel comes an in-depth, bright, and measured biography concerning the most intricate and arguable member of the Kennedy family.
background recollects Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the negative, and the final revolutionary knight of a bygone period of yank politics. yet Kennedy’s enshrinement within the liberal pantheon was once really the ultimate degree of a trip that had its beginnings within the conservative Nineteen Fifties. In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of delusion and false impression to color a whole portrait of this singularly interesting figure.
To seize the entire arc of his subject’s lifestyles, Tye attracts on unpublished memoirs, unreleased govt documents, and fifty-eight containers of papers that have been below lock and key for the prior 40 years. He carried out hundreds of thousands of interviews with RFK intimates—including Bobby’s widow, Ethel, his sister Jean, and his aide John Siegenthaler—many of whom have by no means spoken to a different biographer. Tye’s selection to sift throughout the tangle of frequently contradictory critiques implies that Bobby Kennedy will stand because the definitive one-volume biography of a guy a lot cherished, yet simply as usually misunderstood.
Bobby Kennedy’s transformation from chilly warrior to fiery liberal is a profoundly relocating own tale that still deals a lens onto of the main chaotic and confounding many years of twentieth-century American heritage. the 1st half RFK’s profession underlines what the rustic used to be like within the period of Eisenhower, whereas his final years as a champion of the underclass mirror the seismic shifts wrought through the Sixties. Nurtured at the rightist orthodoxies of his dynasty-building father, Bobby Kennedy all started his public existence as guidance to the red-baiting senator Joseph McCarthy. He ended it with a noble crusade to unite working-class whites with negative blacks and Latinos in an electoral coalition that appeared poised to redraw the face of presidential politics. alongside the best way, he became up on the heart of each occasion that mattered, from the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile drawback to race riots and Vietnam.
Bare-knuckle operative, cynical White apartment insider, romantic visionary—Bobby Kennedy was once all of these items at one time or one other, and every of those points of his character emerges within the pages of this robust and perceptive new biography.
Praise for Bobby Kennedy
“We are in Larry Tye’s debt for bringing again to existence the younger presidential candidate who . . . for a quick second, nearly part a century in the past, instilled desire for the longer term in offended, nervous Americans.”—David Nasaw, The ny occasions publication Review
“Sweeping . . . [Tye] captures RFK’s upward push and fall with basic prose strengthened by way of extraordinary study. in addition to thousands of interviews with Kennedy intimates, together with his widow, Ethel, Tye sifted via unpublished memoirs, unreleased govt documents, and bins of Kennedy papers that have been locked away for a few 40 years.”—USA Today
“Bobby Kennedy, who was once assassinated in the course of his 1968 presidential crusade, is remembered for his antiwar stance and for status up for civil rights and opposed to poverty. yet Tye (“Superman”) exhibits how RFK was once no longer continually the revolutionary hero yet a piece in progress—after all, Kennedy labored for Joseph McCarthy for a spell. Tye’s pages at the assassination are heart-wrenching.”—New York Post
“This biography will attraction not just to these short of a portrait of a dynamic idealist, but additionally to these trying to comprehend the feelings of the days during which he lived.”—Henry A. Kissinger
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It showed either a lot of guts or no sense at all,” Jack said, looking back. That determination, born of insecurity, was not easily shed. ” He was pleading less for news than for acknowledgment, and he was thrilled when his father responded with a two-and-a-half-page missive. Joe had reasons for his low expectations. Like him, Bobby was a second-rate student forced to repeat a year—although the father replayed his last one in high school, whereas the son stayed back in third grade. And unlike his brother Jack, Bobby’s most impressive academic achievement was the number of schools he attended—ten in all—rather than his performance at any of them.
Yet the great patriarch’s tale is not quite the Horatio Alger version that most of us think it to be. He was a self-starter but was not self-made. His father, Patrick Joseph Kennedy, was one of Boston’s most influential and fair-minded political chieftains, serving five one-year terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and two two-year stints in the state Senate. He spent still longer as a Democratic ward boss, a post from which he could dole out offices, jobs, and favors in a capital city dominated by Democrats and, increasingly, by Irishmen.
Joe’s prototype was no longer his affable father, but the frosty Yankees who had blackballed him at Harvard. Add in all his other deals, as Fortune magazine would in 1957, and Joe had amassed somewhere between $200 million and $400 million—enough to make him the wealthiest Irish American on earth. That same year The Saturday Evening Post estimated his stock market earnings alone at between $45 million and $700 million. Managing his estate, the Post added, was a full-time occupation for twenty-odd investment counselors, tax experts, and bookkeepers, all searching for safe havens for the payouts from Joe’s high-risk investments.
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