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Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and was expected to run against Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, following in the footsteps of his late brother John. After winning the California presidential primary...
2) Bobby
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. As the lives of those who were present dramatically intersect, Bobby shows how the gunshots that rang out that night forever changed the course of American history.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"With emotion and striking detail, Robert recalls both the private joys and very public pain of his childhood-the overwhelming devastation of Jack Kennedy's assassination, then, just five years later, his own father's tragic death when Robert was just fourteen. After years of struggling, Robert eventually found his calling as a fierce and passionate environmental activist. Today, like the Kennedys who came before him, he remains a staunch Democrat...
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 442 pages : illustrations, black and white photographs ; 24 cm
Description
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedys death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures. Through his own words we get a direct and intimate perspective on Kennedys views on civil rights, social justice, the war in Vietnam, foreign policy, the desirability of peace, the need to eliminate poverty, and the role of hope in American politics. Here, too,...
5) RFK
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of the third Kennedy son, Robert Francis Kennedy. A man who would almost certainly have been president if his violent assassination hadn't intervened. Features extensive interviews with family members, friends, journalists, Washington insiders, and civil rights activists. Profiles the pivotal roles RFK played in the many major events of the 1960's - the Cuban Missile Crisis,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
ix, 226 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
An in-depth look at the much talked-about -- but never fully revealed -- relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy that began as a result of their shared grief over the assassination of the president in 1963 and lasted until Bobby began his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
299 pages cm
Description
"In April 1967, Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face. After several minutes with little response, the senator walked out the back door, wiping away tears. In Delta Epiphany, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit, while also...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
xiv, 594 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimilies, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm
Description
"In a breakthrough book that is sure to be relevant for years to come, bestselling author (The Reporter Who Knew Too Much) and distinguished historian Mark Shaw investigates the connection between the mysterious deaths of motion picture screen siren Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, and What's My Line? TV star and crack investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. A former noted criminal defense attorney and network legal analyst, Shaw provides...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Bobby Kennedy was a personal hero to a multitude of Americans. As the train carrying his body headed to Washington, whites and blacks alike stood along the tracks, saluting him. They loved him as a fellow patriot who believed a great country could also be a good one. Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's Hardball, has discovered what made him who he was...Drawing on extensive research and intimate interviews, Matthews shines a light on all the important...
Author
Description
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs. " And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
15) The Kennedys
Publisher
Kennedys Production (Ontario), inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedys during the 1960s. Dramatizes the scandal, tragedy, public greatness and private frailty of America's first "royal" family during one of the most momentous decades in history.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Sheds new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its aftermath, revealing the conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration and Bobby Kennedy's secret quest to solve his beloved brother's murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"...every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. Smith declaring that hed never fight for his country given its racist tendencies, and Kennedy being appalled at such lack of patriotism, tracks the disdain for black dissent in our own time. His belief that black folk were ungrateful for the Kennedys efforts to make things better shows up in our day as the charge that black folk wallow in the politics of ingratitude...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
In a book based on newly released documents, the author sheds a new light on the historic battle between U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa during the Senate Rackets Committee hearings and beyond during 1957 to 1964.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Presents a portrait of Senator Robert Kennedy's son that discusses his reputation as a crusading environmental activist and lawyer, his drug and sex addictions, and the tragic suicide of his second wife.
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