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Draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold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.
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1945-1989
Legislators--United States--Biography. Legislators. Politics and government.
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