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An illuminating and comprehensive look at the remarkable-and tragically shortened-career of one of America's most promising leaders Structured around the 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy offers an in-depth exploration of Robert Kennedy, both as a man and a politician. Kennedy's mass appeal to minority groups, his antiwar stance, and his support from Catholics made him unlike any other politician of...
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The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
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1995.
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"On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; his death the following day stunned a nation still recovering from John F. Kennedy's assassination five years earlier. Officials insisted, however, that this was not "another Dallas" - this was an open-and-shut case; Sirhan Sirhan acted alone."--BOOK JACKET. "Yet behind the official version of the Robert Kennedy assassination lies a story full...
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c2002
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IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the assassination of outspoken political leader, his rise in politics and passion for social justice, and the many questions that continue to linger regarding his murder and the suspiciously botched investigation of the crime.
Discusses the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy; the investigations of the murders; and the lingering suspicions that these crimes are still unsolved.