“Piercing and painstakingly researched, its political history written right.”New York magazine

The Last Campaign is Thurston Clarkes bestselling, definitive account of Robert Kennedys exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president: it is a revelatory, resonant, vivid, and moving narrative history.

After John F. Kennedys assassination, Robert Kennedyformerly Jacks no-holds-barred political warriorhad almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brothers murder, and by the nations seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the countrys pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. Over the action-packed eighty-two days of his campaign, Americans were inspired by Kennedys promise to lead them toward a better time.

With new research, interviews, and an intimate sense of Kennedy, The Last Campaign goes right to the heart of Americas deepest despairsand most fiercely held dreamsand tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened personal, racial, political, and national dramas of his times.

Thurston Clarke has written eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Pearl Harbor Ghosts and California Fault, a New York Times notable book. His articles have been published in Vanity Fair, Glamour, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Willsboro, New York, with his wife and three daughters.