Tye’s determination to sift through the tangle of often contradictory opinions means that Bobby Kennedy will stand as the definitive biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. He conducted hundreds of interviews with RFK intimates, many of whom have never spoken publicly, including Bobby’s widow, Ethel, and his sister, Jean. Tye draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, and fifty-eight boxes of papers that had been under lock and key for forty years. In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to capture the full arc of his subject’s life. But Kennedy’s enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that began with his service as counsel to the red-baiting senator Joseph McCarthy. History remembers RFK as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. Kennedy was all of these things at one time or another, and each of these aspects of his personality emerges in the pages of this powerful and perceptive biography. almost half a century ago, instilled hope for the future in angry, fearful Americans.”-David Nasaw, The New York Times Book Reviewīare-knuckle operative, cynical White House insider, romantic visionary-Robert F. “We are in Larry Tye’s debt for bringing back to life the young presidential candidate who. Larry Tye appears on CNN’s American Dynasties: The Kennedys.

Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine.most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”-Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post “A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK.

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