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by LAING, MARGARET:

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ISBN 10
0356024989
ISBN 13
9780356024981
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UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st reprint edn.[Reprinted the same month+ year as the 1st edn.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped to dw/dj.B/w,subject portait photographic dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges.Top edge lightly dust-soiled,but with the fore-edge generally clean; contents near pristine.Brown paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st reprint,,xi+1-236pp includes half-title+title pages,contents+illus lists,a prologue,19 chapters, an epilogue and 12pp b/w photographs between pp144/45. Robert Kennedy has become a folk-hero in his death.The bulk of this book,however,was written whilst he was still alive.Margaret Laing's portrait is therefore of the man as he was in life.It is a picture unvarnished or unbiased by the emotions that so terrible a death evokes.But the author has also written an epilogue which puts the haunting tragedy of the young Senator and potential President in historical perspective.Laing accompanied Kennedy on a strenuous campaign tour and talked with the man himself,with family,friends, colleagues and enemies.She describes a contradictory figure: devoted to both family and career,a man of intense political ambition,a man capable of being rude,tactless and even cruel,and yet the object of an extraordinary emotional devotion on the part of many Americans,and of people all over the world.This book traces his childhood and schooling, his marriage and family life,his association with Joe McCarthy,his prolonged legal conflict with Jimmy Hoffa,boss of the Teamsters Union, the management of his brother's presidential campaign,his role as Attorney-General and the opportunity it gave him to see what racial discrimination means,and his unique position as chief advisor to the president. Margaret Laing has written an intimate,searching, and compassionate study of a man who had become a symbol of hope for so many people, the man whose spirit still is such a symbol; the man who so often ended his speeches with the words: "Some men see things as they are and ask 'why?'.I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
ROBERT KENNEDY.
Author
LAING, MARGARET:
Illustrator
illus with contemporary b/w photographs.
Format/Binding
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st reprint edn.
Book Condition
Used - Near NFINE.
Jacket Condition
Near FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st reprint.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0356024989
ISBN 13
9780356024981
Publisher
LONDON.MACDONALD,July 1968.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1968
Keywords
q52.BIOGRAPHY.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st reprint.ISBN 356024989.Robert Kennedy_biography.US Attorney General+Kennedy's.20thC US politics_politicians.JFK.Kennedy family.Joseph Kennedy.Vietnam War_US.Lyndon Johnson.Joe McCarthy.
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