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After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedy—formerly Jack’s no-holds-barred political warrior—almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother’s murder, and by the nation’s seeming inabilities to resolve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Bobby sensed the country’s pain, so when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. On the action-packed eighty-two days of his campaign, Americans were inspired by Kennedy’s assure to lead them toward an improved time. And after an assassin’s bullet stopped this last great stirring public figure of the 1960s, crowds lined up along the country’s railroad tracks to say goodbye to Bobby.

With new research, interviews, and an intimate sense of Kennedy, Thurston Clarke has an absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America’s deepest despairs—& most fiercely held dreams—and tells us more than we'd understood before concerning this complicated man and the heightened personal, racial, political, and national dramas of his times.