Caroline's Reviews > Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

Brothers by David Talbot

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Mar 24, 11

bookshelves: biography, american-history, kennedy-family

This is a very very good book, insightful, thought-provoking, interesting and very moving. I found myself in tears at more than a few points. It's about Jack and Bobby Kennedy and their relationship throughout 'the Kennedy years'. I have to confess, I've never thought much about Bobby over the years - my attention has always been on JFK and his assassination - but the way this book looked at Bobby broke my heart. Because Jack was his whole world, his primary focus - and when Jack was murdered Bobby was absolutely bereft. And then he pulled himself together, set about on a political career of his own and set out after the White House, all so he could continue his brother's legacy, and was then murdered himself. *sniffles* It just shouldn't have happened and it breaks my heart to think about what the US would have been like had they lived. And yes, I do think there was a conspiracy, and I blame the CIA.

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