Robert Kennedy and His Times

By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978) is Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s biography of Robert F. Kennedy; this is the Houghton Mifflin edition of 2002. Schlesinger, a historian who served as a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy and knew Robert well, drew on Robert Kennedy's private papers. He follows him from his family upbringing and work as a Senate counsel, including for Joseph McCarthy's subcommittee, through his years as attorney general and senator from New York to his 1968 presidential campaign and assassination.

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• Ryan Holiday: “Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr (I read a couple others and big chunk of this one. Everybody kept saying he was super ruthless and JFK’s enforcer but I didn’t find one interesting example, not ONE)”