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Author | : Richard D. Mahoney |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611450489 |
The authoritative, gripping, and sometimes jaw-dropping account of the brothers who shaped a generation, and whose story of tragedy and triumph were intertwined. This year?2003?marks the 40th anniversary of JKF's assassination!
Author | : David Talbot |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847395856 |
Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this astonishingly compelling and convincing new account of the Kennedy years, acclaimed journalist David Talbot tells in a riveting, superbly researched narrative why, even on 22 November 1963, RFK had reason to believe that dark forces were at work in Dallas and reveals, for the first time, that he planned to open an investigation into the assassination had he become president in 1968. BROTHERS also portrays a JFK administration more besieged by internal enemies than has previously been realised, from within the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI and the mafia. This frightening portrait of sinister elements within and without the government serves as the background for the emotionally charged journey of Robert Kennedy. Reading it, you can absolutely believe any number of people would have been happy for both brothers to meet a sticky end. The tragedy, not just for America but for the world, is that since their murders no one has had the nerve to stand against the dark forces they challenged in quite the same way.
Author | : Walter Robert Mears |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781603761574 |
Author | : Gus Russo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608192474 |
A vivid, character-driven narration of the time before, during, and after Kennedy's death, centered on the Kennedys and the Castros, two opposed sets of brothers who collectively authored one of modern history's most gripping chapters.
Author | : James Hilty |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 2000-04-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781566397667 |
For most of his life, Robert Kennedy stood in the shadow cast by his older brother, John; only after President Kennedy's assassination did the public gain a complete sense of Robert ("Bobby," we called him) as a committed advocate for social justice and a savvy politician in his own right. In this comprehensive biography, James W. Hilty offers a detailed and nuanced account of how Robert was transformed from a seemingly unpromising youngster, unlikely to match the accomplishments of his older brothers, to the forceful man who ran "the family business," orchestrating the Kennedy quest for political power.
Author | : Richard D. Mahoney |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781559704809 |
This intriguing book brings a fresh perspective to bear on the intimate, charged partnership of John and Robert Kennedy. The author, Richard D. Mahoney, whose father was a friend of Bobby's and an appointee of Jack's, has both the academic and political experience necessary to evaluate evidence of the Kennedys' relations with the Mafia, anti-Castro rebels, and other groups lurking in the shadows of American life. He also has a sharp eye for the brothers' differing yet complementary personalities. Jack was intellectual and cheerfully cynical, with a zest for pleasure increased by a life-threatening illness concealed from the public. He looked to passionate, partisan Bobby for bulldog-like political support and used his brother as a "moral compass" when planning his administration's actions on civil rights, the corruption of organized labor, and the containment of Communism. Their powerful father, Joseph--whose deep pockets basically bought Jack the presidency and at the same time compromised it because of Joseph's links to organized crime--looms over the brothers as the author of a Faustian bargain that may well have played a role in JFK's assassination. Mahoney's vivid, compulsively readable text offers suggestive questions rather than definitive answers, but it certainly succeeds as a bracing corrective to "America's inability to see its history as tragedy," a failure Jack and Bobby emphatically did not share. --Wendy Smith
Author | : Lawrence J. Haas |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1640123849 |
Lawrence J. Haas explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America’s empire for more than six decades after World War II.
Author | : Amber Hunt |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1493016717 |
The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, whose pain, heartbreak, and grief seemed immensely public and lonely and personal at the same time. The Tragic Lives of the Kennedy Wives examines five of the Kennedy matriarchs: Rose, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, and Vicki through the lens of their marriages, their religion, their families, their activism and most of all, their tragedies. An important and fascinating exploration into the side of Camelot that was never quite kept from the public eye.
Author | : Walter Robert Mears |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1579128416 |
Presents a pictorial biography of the four Kennedy brothers--Joseph Jr., John, Robert, and Edward--and focuses on the political ambitions of the Kennedy family and their strong family bonds throughout the years.
Author | : Ben Kamin |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628950048 |
The product of long-concealed FBI surveillance documents, Dangerous Friendship chronicles a history of Martin Luther King Jr. that the government kept secret from the public for years. The book reveals the story of Stanley Levison, a well-known figure in the Communist Party–USA, who became one of King’s closest friends and, effectively, his most trusted adviser. Levison, a Jewish attorney and businessman, became King’s pro bono ghostwriter, accountant, fundraiser, and legal adviser. This friendship, however, created many complications for both men. Because of Levison’s former ties to the Communist Party, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover launched an obsessive campaign, wiretapping, tracking, and photographing Levison relentlessly. By association, King was labeled as “a Communist and subversive,” prompting then–attorney general Robert F. Kennedy to authorize secret surveillance of the civil rights leader. It was this effort that revealed King’s sexual philandering and furthered a breakdown of trust between King, Robert F. Kennedy, and eventually President John F. Kennedy. With stunning revelations, this book exposes both the general attitude of the U.S. government toward the privacy rights of American citizens during those difficult years as well as the extent to which King, Levison, and many other freedom workers were hounded by people at the very top of the U.S. security establishment.