Robert Kennedy and His Times
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Robert Kennedy and His Times

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Robert Kennedy and His Times

About this book

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful.

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 bestselling 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.

"Exceptionally important, one of a handful of books that anyone who cares for the politics of the ' 60s must read." — Newsweek

"An absorbing and vividly written study of a gallant and tragic man." — The  Boston Globe 

"A story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured." — Miami Herald

 

"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

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Notes

See Acknowledgments for the location of manuscript collections and also for explanations of certain abbreviations. When two or more oral history interviews were held the same day, they are designated by a roman numeral following the date.

Prologue: 1968

1. Frank Church of Idaho, Congressional Record, July 30, 1968, S9713.
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2. The UPI estimate; the Editors of United Press International and Cowles, Assasination: Robert F. Kennedy—1915–1968, ed. Francine Klagsbrun and D. C. Whitney (New York, 1968), 201. See also New York Times, June 9, 1968.
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1. The Family

1. James Joyce, Ulysses (New York, 1961), 34.
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2. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy’s memoir, Times to Remember (Garden City, N.Y., 1974), is illuminating and indispensable; the verse from a Boston paper is on 10. For the Kennedy family, and Joseph P. Kennedy in particular, there are two serious and instructive, if hostile, biographies: R. J. Whalen, The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy (New York, 1964); and D. E. Koskoff, Joseph P. Kennedy: A Life and Times (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1974).
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3. Gail Cameron, Rose (New York: Dell reprint, 1972), 52.
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4. As told by James A. Fayne, an old Kennedy associate, to R. J. Whalen, in Whalen, Founding Father, 44.
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5. E. K. Lindley, “Will Kennedy Run for President?” Liberty, May 21, 1938; Whalen, Founding Father, 49.
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6. Whalen, Founding Father, 104.
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7. Joe McCarthy, The Remarkable Kennedys (New York, 1960), 53.
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8. Michael Mooney to RFK, August to, 1966, RFK Papers.
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9. RFK to Mooney, August 18, 1966, RFK Papers.
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10. Whalen, Founding Father, 74, 61.
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11. Edward M. Kennedy, ed., The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy (privately printed, 1965), 112.
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12. Ibid., 12.
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13. McCarthy, Remarkable Kennedys, 66.
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14. E. M. Kennedy, Fruitful Bough, 32.
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15. Joseph P. Kennedy, I’m for Roosevelt (New York, 1936), 3.
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16. Rose Kennedy, Times to Remember, 195.
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17. McCarthy, Remarkable Kennedys, 58.
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18. JPK to Felix Frankfurter, December 5, 1933, JPK Papers.
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19. Raymond Moley, The First New Deal (New York, 1966), 381.
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20. JPK to JPK, Jr., May 4, 1934, JPK Papers.
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21. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Coming of the New Deal (Boston, 1958), 467–468.
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22. Raymond Moley, After Seven Years (New York, 1939), 288.
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23. Harold L. Ickes, The Secret Diary . . .: The First Thousand Days, 1933–1936 (New York, 1953), 173.
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24. From a memorandum written by Rose Kennedy, evidently in 1940, JPK Papers.
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25. Churchill to JPK, October 12, 1935, JPK Papers.
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26. JPK to Churchill, October 19, 1935, JPK Papers.
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27. Press conference no. 309, July 29, 1936, in Franklin D. Roosevelt, Complete Presidential Press Conferences (New York, 1972), vol. 8, 34–35.
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28. Arthur Krock, Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line (New York, 1968), 332.
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29. JPK, I’m for Roosevelt, 3, 7, 14, 93, 102–107.
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30. JPK, address before the Democratic Businessmen’s League of Massachusetts, October 24, 1936, Roosevelt Papers.
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31. J. P. Kennedy, “The New Deal and Business,” radio speech, October 21, 1936, JPK Papers. Kennedy wrote Roosevelt, October 24, 1936, that the speech had been partly written by a Fre...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition
  8. Foreword to the 2002 Edition
  9. Foreword
  10. Prologue: 1968
  11. The Family
  12. The Father
  13. The War
  14. The Third Son
  15. The Brothers: I
  16. The First Investigating Committee: Joe McCarthy
  17. Interlude: William O. Douglas and Adlai Stevenson
  18. The Second Investigating Committee: Jimmy Hoffa
  19. The Second Investigating Committee: Walter Reuther
  20. 1960
  21. To the Department of Justice
  22. The Pursuit of Justice: J. Edgar Hoover
  23. The Pursuit of Justice: The Mob
  24. The Pursuit of Justice: Civil Rights
  25. The Pursuit of Justice: Ross Barnett and George Wallace
  26. The Pursuit of Justice: Martin Luther King
  27. The Politics of Justice
  28. Justice and Poverty
  29. The Kennedys and the Cold War
  30. The CIA and Counterinsurgency
  31. The Cuban Connection: I
  32. Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis
  33. The Cuban Connection: II
  34. Missions to the Third World
  35. The Brothers: II
  36. Corridors of Grief
  37. Stranger in a Strange Land
  38. The Vice Presidency
  39. To the Senate
  40. The Foreign Policy Breach: Latin America
  41. Vietnam Legacy
  42. The Breach Widens: Vietnam
  43. The Breach Widens: South Africa, New York
  44. Time of Troubles
  45. Tribune of the Underclass
  46. Images
  47. The Dilemma
  48. The Decision
  49. The Journey Begins
  50. The Long Day Wanes
  51. To Sail Beyond . . . the Western Stars, Until I Die
  52. Notes
  53. Index
  54. About the Author
  55. Connect with HMH
  56. Footnotes