Author: Jack Newfield
Title: Robert Kennedy: A Memoir. (First Edition)
Description: New York: Dutton, 1969. 8vo. 318 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Blue cloth covered boards. Dust Jacket Good. Some shelf wear, with rips at edges. DJ clipped Pages fine. Original owner’s name handwritten inscription on free end paper. Presents a portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, assessing his character and political actions between the death of his brother, the President, in 1963 and his own death in 1968. Contents: Not a myth, only a man. -- The shock of unrecognition. -- Kennedy's character. -- Kennedy's politics: beyond liberalism. -- Bedford-Stuyvesant: giving a damn about hell. -- Vietnam: breaking with the past. -- New York politics: the death of a small hope. -- Lyndon Johnson: the antichrist of the new politics. -- Listening to the voices of the old politics. -- The decision to run. -- Running against LBJ. -- The primaries: Indiana. -- The last thirty days. -- The day of the locust. .

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