num_pages: 608
description: New York Times bestselling author of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend Larry Tye was given unprecedented access by the Kennedy family to write this in-depth vibrant and editorially independent biography.History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer a tribune for the poor and the last progressive knight. But Kennedynurtured on the rightist orthodoxies of his dynasty-building fatherstarted his public life as counsel to the left-baiting table-thumping Senator Joseph McCarthy.A bare-knuckled political operative who masterminded his brothers whatever-it-takes bids for senator and president Kennedy okayed FBI wiretaps of Martin Luther King Jr. and cloak-and-dagger operations against communist Cuba that included blowing up railroad bridges sabotaging crops and plotting the elimination of President Fidel Castro.Remembered now as a rare optimist in an age of political cynicism RFKs profoundly moving journey from cold warrior to hot-blooded liberal also offers a lens into two of the most chaotic and confounding decades of twentieth century America.
language: English
title: Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
publisher: Random House