Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade

"Mutual Contempt is at once a fascinating study in character and an illuminating meditation on the role character can play in shaping history." -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Their antagonism, propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views, and a deep, abiding animosity, would drive them to a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible. Played out against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, theirs was ...