Robert Kennedy and His Times

"Kennedy's life reads like a Greek tragedy....In many ways, this is a fable disguised as narrative history. Its moral is that the journey of Kennedy's life, his commitment to public service, to the poor and the disadvantaged, should be seen as an inspiring account of what it was like to be at Robert Kennedy's side and why he and many like him felt that vision and virtue walked with them."

-- Business Week

"Exceptionally important, one of a handful of books that anyone who cares for the politics of the '60s must read."

-- Newsweek

"A picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding his vulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates in society by his life experiences and sufferings."

-- Los Angeles Times

"An absorbing and vividly written study of a gallant and tragic man who might have made a difference had he lived."

-- The Boston Globe

"A moving and enchanting study of the young and often puzzling man who, if he had lived, would almost surely have been elected president instead of Richard Nixon...Kennedy knew the danger,! but he chose not to live in fear of it."

-- San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"Kennedy's was a complex, influential, and in many respects enigmatic life....His is a story not so much of what was as of what might have been, a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured. Schlesinger has told that story brilliantly."

-- Miami Herald

Winner of the National Book Award

with 16 pages of intimate photographs

Schlesinger, historian and friend of Bobby Kennedy, has had access for the first time to private papers, letters, and journals which make possible a fresh look at both personal relationships and public events. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award for Biography.

From the Trade Paperback edition.