| Robert Kennedy: His Life Contributor(s): Thomas, Evan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743203291 ISBN-13: 9780743203296 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: Robert Kennedy has been viewed as hero and villain. Thomas's achievement is to portray RFK as a human being--an extraordinarily complex man who was at once kind and cruel, devious and honest, fearful and brave. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00041995 |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 6.15" W x 9.23" (1.30 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: He was Good Bobby, who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it. And Bad Bobby, the ruthless and manipulative bully of countless conspiracy theories. Thomas's unvarnished but sympathetic and fair-minded portrayal is packed with new details about Kennedy's early life and his behind-the-scenes machinations, including new revelations about the 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his long struggles with J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thomas, Evan: - Evan Thomas is the author of The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the C.I.A.; Robert Kennedy: His Life; The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire, 1989; Sea of Thunder: The Last Great Naval Command, 1941-1945; and John Paul Jones. His most recent book is Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World. |