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Robert Kennedy and his times, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

individual biography

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index present

non fiction

Robert Kennedy and his times

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

A biography of the Senator who was assassinated in 1968, stressing the public and personal forces and events that shaped his life

The family -- The father -- The war -- The third son -- The brothers: I -- The first investigating committee: Joe McCarthy -- Interlude: William O. Douglas and Adlai Stevenson -- The second investigating committee: Jimmy Hoffa -- The second investigating committee: Walter Reuther -- 1960 -- To the Department of Justice -- The pursuit of justice: J. Edgar Hoover -- The pursuit of justice: the mob -- The pursuit of justice: civil rights -- The pursuit of justice: Ross Barnett and George Wallace -- The pursuit of justice: Martin Luther King -- The politics of justice -- Justice and poverty -- The Kennedys and the Cold War -- The CIA and counterinsurgency -- The Cuban connection: I -- Robert Kennedy and the missile crisis -- The Cuban connection: II -- Missions to the third world -- The brothers: II -- Corridors of grief -- Stranger in a strange land -- The vice presidency -- To the senate -- The foreign policy breach: Latin American -- Vietnam legacy -- The breach widens: Vietnam -- The breach widens: South Africa, New York -- Time of troubles -- Tribune of the underclass -- Images -- The dilemma -- The decision -- The journey begins -- The long day wanes -- To sail beyond ... the western stars, until I die