false 2848257 4 The definitive account of Robert Kennedy's exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president-a revelatory history that is especially resonant nowAfter 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. 2874376 27 5 2008 The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America total:255|5:119|4:94|3:34|2:7|1:1| 255 1088 497 76 3 1 false false Tue Nov 11 21:06:58 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 20:43:06 -0800 2008
Suffice it to say, I did not love this book. In fact, I didn't even like it that much. I felt that...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 14:11:18 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 08:08:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 12:42:36 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 14:56:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 07:55:50 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 08:02:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 00:01:49 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 17:47:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 11:29:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 14:27:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 09:00:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 19:49:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 05:44:05 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 20:06:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 11:33:32 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 11:38:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 14:43:42 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 10:44:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 18 15:57:59 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 12:25:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 04:14:27 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 04:49:39 -0700 2008
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The anecdote of the wedding party throwing their bouquets at the train bearing RFK's body is unforgettable.

His speech in Indianapolis the night of Martin Luther King's death must rank among the bravest acts of leade...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 15:01:43 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 15:13:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 22 18:41:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 18:42:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 10:16:30 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 10:34:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 10:17:39 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 21:42:28 -0700 2008
But the last 1/3 was so beautiful, especially the story describing Bobby's campaigning in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he meets Christopher Pretty Boy, an orphan. RFK asks Christopher to acc...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 09:26:28 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 03:07:18 -0700 2008
It's a very wistful book. I expect the Bobby Kennedy depicted in it is seen through rose-colored glasses, but I really wished that I had t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 17:49:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 09:43:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 20:40:42 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 14:46:39 -0700 2009
The one thing I gained from it is an understand of how many democratic and republican values switched d...more...]]>