Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Robert Kennedy and his times /

Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1917-

Robert Kennedy and his times / - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1978. - xvii, 1066 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The family -- The father -- The war -- The third son -- The brothers: I -- The first investigating committee: Joe McCarthy -- Interlude: William O. Douglas and Adlai Stevenson -- The second investigating committee: Jimmy Hoffa -- The second investigating committee: Walter Reuther -- 1960 -- To the Department of Justice -- The pursuit of justice: J. Edgar Hoover -- The pursuit of justice: the mob -- The pursuit of justice: civil rights -- The pursuit of justice: Ross Barnett and George Wallace -- The pursuit of justice: Martin Luther King -- The politics of justice -- Justice and poverty -- The Kennedys and the Cold War -- The CIA and counterinsurgency -- The Cuban connection: I -- Robert Kennedy and the missile crisis -- The Cuban connection: II -- Missions to the third world -- The brothers: II -- Corridors of grief -- Stranger in a strange land -- The vice presidency -- To the senate -- The foreign policy breach: Latin American -- Vietnam legacy -- The breach widens: Vietnam -- The breach widens: South Africa, New York -- Time of troubles -- Tribune of the underclass -- Images -- The dilemma -- The decision -- The journey begins -- The long day wanes -- To sail beyond...the western stars, until I die.

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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.


United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.


Legislators--United States--Biography.
Legisladores--Biograf�ia.--EE.UU.


United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

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