Robert Kennedy and his times
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr.
- Boston, Mass Houghton Mifflin Company 1978
- x, p. 558 - 1116
- Robert Kennedy and His Times Vol. 2 .
Includes Index
The family -- The father -- The war -- The third son -- The brothers: I -- The first investigating committee: Joe McCarthy -- Interlude: William O. Douglas and Adlai Stevenson -- The second investigating committee: Jimmy Hoffa -- The second investigating committee: Walter Reuther -- 1960 -- To the Department of Justice -- The pursuit of justice: J. Edgar Hoover -- The pursuit of justice: the mob -- The pursuit of justice: civil rights -- The pursuit of justice: Ross Barnett and George Wallace -- The pursuit of justice: Martin Luther King -- The politics of justice -- Justice and poverty -- The Kennedys and the Cold War -- The CIA and counterinsurgency -- The Cuban connection: I -- Robert Kennedy and the missile crisis -- The Cuban connection: II -- Missions to the third world -- The brothers: II -- Corridors of grief -- Stranger in a strange land -- The vice presidency -- To the senate -- The foreign policy breach: Latin American -- Vietnam legacy -- The breach widens: Vietnam -- The breach widens: South Africa, New York -- Time of troubles -- Tribune of the underclass -- Images -- The dilemma -- The decision -- The journey begins -- The long day wanes -- To sail beyond ... the western stars, until I die.
A decade after his death Robert Kennedy still haunts the American imagination. Born the son of great wealth, dying the tribune of the dispossessed, greatly hated and greatly loved, Robert Kennedy, in his passion, concern and vulnerability, was in Emerson's sense one of the "representative men" of his time.