![]() 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. Over the action-packed eighty-two days of his campaign, Americans were inspired by Kennedy’s promise to lead them toward a better time. Bobby sensed the country’s pain, and when he announced that he was running for president, the country united behind his hopes. ![]() He was haunted by his brother’s murder, and by the nation’s seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedy-formerly Jack’s no-holds-barred political warrior-almost lost hope. The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president-a revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John F. ![]()
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