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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon

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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon

History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. But Kennedy’s enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that had its beginnings in the conservative 1950s. Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure. To capture the full arc of his subject’s life, Tye draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files and 58 boxes of papers that had been under lock and key for the past 40 years.

Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
by Larry Tye

  • Publication Date: May 9, 2017
  • Genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction, Politics
  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • ISBN-10: 0812983505
  • ISBN-13: 9780812983500