Robert Kennedy: His LifeSimon and Schuster, 10.09.2002 - 512 Seiten Robert Kennedy has been viewed as hero and villain -- as the "Good Bobby" who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it, ... saw suffering and tried to heal it"--Or as the "Bad Bobby" of countless conspiracy theories, the ruthless and manipulative bully who plotted with the Mafia to kill Castro and lusted after Marilyn Monroe. Evan Thomas's achievement is to realize RFK as a human being, to bring to life an extraordinarily complex man who was at once kind and cruel, devious and honest, fearful and brave. Thomas had unusual access to his subject's life. He is the first biographer since Arthur Schlesinger to see RFK's private papers, and he interviewed all of Kennedy's closest aides and advisers, many of whom were forthcoming in ways that they had not been before. The portrait that emerges is unvarnished but sympathetic, fair-minded and always readable. It is packed with new detail about Kennedy's early life and his behind-the-scenes machinations: his involvement in a |
Inhalt
Prologue | 17 |
Runt | 29 |
Tough | 47 |
Moralist | 67 |
Manipulator | 90 |
Protector | 109 |
Testing | 126 |
Goad | 141 |
Threats | 240 |
Worn | 262 |
Mourner | 276 |
Searcher | 297 |
Conscience | 311 |
Ghosts | 327 |
Courage | 343 |
Contents | 362 |
Intrigue | 153 |
Play | 175 |
Crisis | 195 |
Brink | 209 |
Causes | 230 |
Source Notes | 395 |
Bibliography | 479 |
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