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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
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Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.922092
EAN: 9780805077926
ISBN: 0805077928
Label: Henry Holt and Co.
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-05-27
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Studio: Henry Holt and Co.
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The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedy—formerly Jack’s no-holds-barred political warrior—almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother’s murder, and by the nation’s seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the country’s pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed eighty-two days of his campaign, Americans were inspired by Kennedy’s promise to lead them toward a better time. And after an assassin’s bullet stopped this last great stirring public figure of the 1960s, crowds lined up along the country’s railroad tracks to say goodbye to Bobby. With new research, interviews, and an intimate sense of Kennedy, Thurston Clarke provides an absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America’s deepest despairs—and most fiercely held dreams—and tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened personal, racial, political, and national dramas of his times.
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Summary: A Story of America
Comment: One of my earliest memories, at about age 4, is looking over a sea of people at a 1968 Hubert Humphrey rally. My folks were good establishment democrats. They'd also been huge King followers, and had been to the March on Washington. His death was the seminal political event I heard as a young child. They'd been a fan of JFK, of course, but I curiously had heard little of RFK from them. I suspect his death, as it did for so many, sunk them into cynicism and resignation.
This book, then, was a revelation to me. Clarke's narrative moves along at breakneck pace mirroring RKF's ferocious but brief campaign. He brings the campaign to life, and what a ride it was. Though RFK is the central figure, the real story is America itself. He writes of RFK's ability to transcend multiple segments of the American populace----------minorities, liberals, rural folk, blue-collar workers, and big business republicans. The campaign was like a religious revival weekend, and the folks at his rallys seem hungry for spiritual redemption. And that seems to me the larger message of Clarke's book. As American's we so deeply want to feel good about ourselves and our country. RFK connected with this. I read this book to understand the social and political climate of the late 60s. But I came away with a deeper understanding of the American identity. Reading it in the middle of the Obama campaign was particulary gratifying.
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Summary: Great Listening!
Comment: "Presidential campaigning at its best. Clarke gives all the inside scoop on why Bobby Kennedy ran against an incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, and took away the momentum from Eugene McCarthy. Great listening."
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Summary: Common Presidential Goals!
Comment: The author does a good job of sharing the essence of Bobby Kennedy; particularly while he was running for the nomination to be president. I had forgotten his focus on the poor and minority; "The least of these" so to speak.
I felt that the opening chapter or Forward was a good summary of his attitude and focus. I was reminded of Barak Obama when he first began his campaign. Obama needs to get back to that, to inspiring us!
I am a veteran of the Korean Police Action from 1950 to 1954. Two of my sons were in the service during the Vietnam fiasco, so much of this book was very familiar to me as a father. Two other sons were planning to go to Canada when the war was stopped. I compare the Iraq involvement with our involvement in Vietnam. This book is a good review for all of us.
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Summary: Valuabe insight on Kennedy's campaign
Comment: I'm not American, nor was I alive when RFK was murdured, but this book made me travel along with all the Kennedy entourage during those 82 days of campaign (the part that described the death, and aftermath, of Martin Luther King made me feel all the emotion people must have felt), and more that that, gave me the precise picture of what RFK wanted to America, in one word, his philosophy. Even if you have already read more about RFK will not be disapointed.
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Summary: Great book!
Comment: This is one of the best books I have read in a long time! It is very personal and inspiring. It is like being on the campaign trial with Robert Kennedy. I would strongly reccomend this book to anyone interested in american politcs.
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