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In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History) - Softcover

Palermo, Joseph

 
9780231120692: In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0231120699 ISBN 13: 9780231120692
Verlag: University Press Group, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Robert Kennedy's role in American politics during the 1960s was pivotal yet has defied attempts to define it. He was a junior senator from New York, but he was also much more. The public perceived him as possessing the intangible qualities of his brother, the slain president. From 1965 to 1968 Kennedy struggled to find his own voice in national affairs.

In His Own Right examines this crucial period of Robert Kennedy's political career, combining the best of political biography with a gripping social history of the social movements of the 1960s. How did Kennedy make the transformation from cold warrior to grassroots activist, from being a political operator known for ruthlessness toward his opponents to becoming, by 1968, a "tribune of the underclass"? Based on never before seen documents, this intimate portrait of one of the most respected politicians never elected president describes Robert Kennedy's relationship with such well-known activists and political players as Benjamin Spock, Eugene McCarthy, Allard Lowenstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez, as well as the ordinary men and women who influenced Kennedy's views as he came to stand in the public arena and in the national consciousness as a man and a leader in his own right.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph A Palermo lectures at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written for Peace & Change and other journals.

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Verlag
University Press Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231120699
ISBN 13 
9780231120692
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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