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“With skill and verve, Larry Tye has written a fascinating account of a transformative figure.”
— Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner
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We are in Larry Tye’s debt for bringing back to life the young presidential candidate who . . . for a brief moment, almost half a century ago, instilled hope for the future in angry, fearful Americans.
— David Nasaw, The New York Times Book Review
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A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [Tye] provides readers and historians their most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.
— Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post
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A compelling story of how idealism can be cultivated and liberalism learned . . . Tye does an exemplary job of capturing not just the chronology of Bobby’s life, but also the sense of him as a person.
— Los Angeles Review of Books
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Captures RFK’s rise and fall with straightforward prose bolstered by impressive research.
— USA Today
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[Tye] has a keen gift for narrative storytelling and an ability to depict his subject with almost novelistic emotional detail.
— Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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Nuanced and thorough . . . [RFK’s] vision echoes through the decades.
— The Economist
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Tye’s pages on the assassination are heart-wrenching.
— New York Post
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It captures RFK’s cold, ruthless side with appropriate relish, and it provides fast-paced and very detailed accounts of RFK’s early working relationship with soon-to-be-disgraced politician Joe McCarthy.
— The Christian Science Monitor
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Tye’s vivid journalistic style makes the biography an arresting read. . . . Many of the most fascinating stories come through Tye’s dissection of Bobby’s relations with his adversaries.
— San Francisco Chronicle
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Robert Kennedy led one of the great unfinished lives in American history. With skill and verve, Larry Tye has written a fascinating account of a transformative figure who continues to summon us to heed our better angels even all these years distant.
— Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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Drawing on the personal papers and insights of the Kennedy family, this biography will appeal not only to those wanting a portrait of a dynamic idealist, but also to those seeking to understand the emotions of the times in which he lived.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Sweeping…Captures RFK’s rise and fall with straightforward prose bolstered by impressive research.”
— USA Today
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“Tye’s account is nuanced and thorough, and he manages the rare feat of interviewing Kennedy’s widow Ethel, now eighty-eight…[RFK’s] vision echoes through the decades.”
— Economist (London)
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“Larry Tye has done his homework…to produce a nuanced, balanced, affectionate, and mostly favorable portrait…We are in Larry Tye’s debt for bringing back to life the young presidential candidate.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Trac[es] Kennedy’s transition from a brash, patrician lawyer to a skilled liberal politician who overwhelmingly identified with those in the greatest need.”
— Associated Press
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“Very, very good…It captures RFK’s cold, ruthless side with appropriate relish, and it provides fast-paced and very detailed accounts of RFK’s early working relationship with soon-to-be-disgraced politician Joe McCarthy.”
— Christian Science Monitor
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“It is difficult to envision anyone getting Robert F. Kennedy more right than biographer Tye does in this superb book. Tye beautifully captures Kennedy’s contradictions…[with] wonderful readability.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“A captivating account…shedding new light on Kennedy’s relationships with Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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“Unflinchingly illustrates the evolution of a statesman…A complete portrait of a complex man whose contributions to history were essential and whose potential will remain forever unknowable.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Marc Cashman provides an affable, approachable narration for this biography of Bobby Kennedy. Listeners will find Cashman’s comforting voice a welcome respite, not only during the well-known tragedy that befalls Kennedy, but also as his complicated political and personal path unfolds.”
— AudioFile