| Record Number |
747012 |
| ISBN |
9780812993349 (hardback) |
| Author |
Tye, Larry author. |
| Title |
Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon / Larry Tye. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Random House, [2016] |
| ©2016 |
| Pagination etc. |
xxi, 580 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-552) and index. |
| Summary Note |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. But Kennedy's enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that had its beginnings in the conservative 1950s. In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure. To capture the full arc of his subject's life, Tye draws on rare access granted to him by the Kennedy family, including unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, and fifty-eight boxes of papers that had been under lock and key for the past forty years. He conducted hours of interviews with RFK intimates, including Bobbys widow, Ethel, his sister Jean, and his aide John Siegenthaler, many of whom have never spoken to another biographer. Tye's determination to sift through the tangle of often contradictory opinions means that Bobby Kennedy will stand as the definitive one-volume biography of a man much beloved, but just as often misunderstood. |
| Subject - Name |
Kennedy, Robert F., -- 1925-1968 |
| Subject |
United States Congress. -- Senate -- Biography. |
| Legislators -- United States -- Biography |
| United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 |
| Shelf Location |
973.922 KENN |
