The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
by Richard D. Mahoney
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Eight years apart in age, John F. and Robert F. Kennedy were wildly different in temperament and sensibility. Jack was the leader--charismatic, ironic, capable of extraordinary growth and reach, yet also reckless. Bobby was the fearless, hardworking Boy Scout--unafraid of dirty work and ruthless about protecting his brother and destroying their enemies. Jack, it was said, was the first Irish Brahman, Bobby the last Irish Puritan. As Richard D. Mahoney demonstrates with brilliant clarity in show more this impeccably documented, magisterial book, the Kennedys lived their days of power in dangerous, trackless territory. Mahoney gives us the Kennedy days and years as we have never before seen them. Here are Jack and Bobby in all their hubris and humanity, youthfulness and fatalism. Here, also, is American history as it unfolds. With a new foreword by David Talbot, The Kennedy Brothers is a masterful account of two men whose legacy continues to hold the American imagination. show lessTags
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I learned enough to make it interesting. I appreciated the exploration of the relationship between the brothers. I was particularly interested in the author’s view of Bobby’s evolution from anti-communist staff Attorney to McCarthy to crusading champion of minorities, the poor and the down-trodden. On the other hand, for me, there was a little too much emphasis on coincidence, conspiracy, and the heroic mythology of the Kennedy’s.
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Richard D. Mahoney is an expert on international economics and foreign policy and the author of two histories of the Kennedy administration. He was the Democratic secretary of state and acting governor of Arizona.
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 973.922092 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- Cold War, Vietnam War, Digital Age (1953-2001) Dwight D. Eisenhower, 2nd Term (1953-1961) Sputnik Crisis, Little Rock Crisis, National Aeronautics and Space Act Biography
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- E842.1 .M34 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Kennedy's administration, 1961-November 22, 1963
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