The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
of Thurston Clarke (Goodreads Author)
Description
The definitive account of Robert KennedyĂąâŹâąs exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for presidentĂąâŹâa revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John F. KennedyĂąâŹâąs assassination, Robert KennedyĂąâŹâformerly JackĂąâŹâąs no-holds-barred political warriorĂąâŹâalmost lost hope. He was haunted by his brotherĂąâŹâąs murder, and by the nationĂąâŹâąs seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the countryĂąâŹâąs 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 were inspired by KennedyĂąâŹâąs promise to lead them toward a better time. And after an assassinĂąâŹâąs bullet stopped this last great stirring public figure of the 1960s, crowds lined up along the countryĂąâŹâąs railroad tracks to say goodbye to Bobby. With new research, interviews, and an intimate sense of Kennedy, Thurston Clarke provides an absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of AmericaĂąâŹâąs deepest despairsĂąâŹâand most fiercely held dreamsĂąâŹâand tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened personal, racial, political, and national dramas of his times.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336 pages
- Publisher Henry Holt and Co.
- Publication Date May 27th 2008
- First Publication 11/06/08
- Language English
- ISBN 9780805077926
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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