Last Campaign : Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

English

ISBN: 0805090223

EAN: 9780805090222

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Political/Political Science / Political Process / Elections/History / United States / 20Th Century/

Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry

Release Date: 05/26/2009

Synopsis: Piercing and painstakingly researched, its political history written right.New YorkmagazineThe Last Campaignis Thurston Clarkes bestselling, definitive account of Robert Kennedys exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president: it is a revelatory, resonant, vivid, and moving narrative history.After John F. Kennedys assassination, Robert Kennedyformerly Jacks no-holds-barred political warriorhad almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brothers murder, and by the nations seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the countrys 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 Kennedys promise to lead them toward a better time.With new research, interviews, and an intimate sense of Kennedy,The Last Campaigngoes right to the heart of Americas deepest despairsand most fiercely held dreamsand tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened personal, racial, political, and national dramas of his times.

Last Campaign : Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.92 inches

Width: 5.27 inches

Length: 8.02 inches

Weight: 9.95 oz

Pages: 352