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Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon /

Tye, Larry,

Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon / Larry Tye. - xxi, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-552) and index.

Cold warrior -- Crusading -- Brother's keeper -- Getting justice -- Breaking barriers -- Cuba and beyond -- The interregnum -- Off and running -- Senator Kennedy -- Last campaign.

Draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold warrior to a liberal champion of the working class, the poor, and minorities.

ISBN: 9780812993349 0812993349

LCCN: 2016004991

Subjects--Personal Names:
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
United States. Congress. Senate.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1945-1989

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Legislators--United States--Biography.
Legislators.
Politics and government.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies
Biography.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: E840.8.K4 / T94 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 973.922092 B