Robert Kennedy and His Times (40th Anniversary Edition)

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Overview

“An absorbing and vividly written study of a gallant and tragic man.”—Boston Globe
 
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family’s second presidential hopeful in “a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured” (Miami Herald). Schlesinger’s account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. Robert Kennedy and His Times is “a picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding his vulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates in society by his life experiences and sufferings” (Los Angeles Times).
 
This Fortieth Anniversary Edition contains not only Schlesinger’s illuminating and inspiring portrait of Robert Kennedy, but a new introduction by Michael Beschloss, in which the acclaimed best-selling author and historian discusses the book’s initial reception, Schlesinger’s thoughts on it, and expounds on why Robert Kennedy is still such an important figure today.
 
“An inspiring account of what it was like to be at Robert Kennedy’s side and why he and many like him felt that vision and virtue walked with them.”—Business Week

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781328567567
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/08/2018
Pages:	1104
Sales rank:	360,256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition xii

Foreword to the 2002 Edition xviii

Foreword xxiv

Prologue: 1968 1

1 The Family 3

2 The Father 21

3 The War 41

4 The Third Son 63

5 The Brothers: I 90

6 The First Investigating Committee Joe McCarthy 99

7 Interlude: William O. Douglas Adhai Stevenson 121

8 The Second Investigating Committee Jimmy Hoffa 137

9 The Second Investigating Committee Walter Rcuther 170

10 1960 192

11 To the Department of Justice 222

12 The Pursuit of Justice J. Edgar Hoover 245

13 The Pursuit of Justice: The Mob 261

14 The Pursuit of Justice: Civil Rights 286

15 The Pursuit of Justice Ross Barnett George Wallace 317

16 The Pursuit of Justice Martin Luther King 343

17 The Politics of Justice 368

18 Justice and Poverty 392

19 The Kennedys and the Cold War 417

20 The CIA and the Counterinsurgency 443

21 The Cuban Connection: I 468

22 Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis 499

23 The Cuban Connection: II 533

24 Missions to the Third World 559

25 The Brothers: II 584

26 Corridors of Grief 603

27 Stranger in a Strange Land 621

28 The Vice Presidency 646

29 To the Senate 666

30 The Foreign Policy Breach: Latin America 689

31 Vietnam Legacy 701

32 The Breach Widens: Vietnam 724

33 The Breach Widens: South Africa, New York 743

34 Time of Troubles 759

35 Tribune of the Underclass 778

36 Images 801

37 The Dilemma 822

38 The Decision 842

39 The Journey Begins 858

40 The Long Day Wanes 876

41 To Sail Beyond … the Western Stars, Until I Die 903

Notes 919

Index 1025