Tye, Larry,

Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon / Larry Tye. - xxi, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-552) and index.

Cold warrior -- Crusading -- Brother's keeper -- Getting justice -- Breaking barriers -- Cuba and beyond -- The interregnum -- Off and running -- Senator Kennedy -- Last campaign.

Draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold warrior to a liberal champion of the working class, the poor, and minorities.

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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.


United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
United States. Congress. Senate.


1945-1989


Legislators--United States--Biography.
Legislators.
Politics and government.


United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States.


Biographies
Biography.
Biographies.

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