Richard D. Mahoney

The Kennedy Brothers

The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby

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Eight years apart in age, John F. and Robert F. Kennedy were wildly different in temperament and sensibility. Jack was the leader-charismatic, ironic, capable of extraordinary growth and reach, yet also reckless. Bobby was the fearless, hardworking Boy Scout-unafraid of dirty work and ruthless about protecting his brother and destroying their enemies. Jack, it was said, was the first Irish Brahman, Bobby the last Irish Puritan.As Richard D. Mahoney demonstrates with brilliant clarity in this impeccably documented, magisterial book, the Kennedys lived their days of power in dangerous, trackless territory. Mahoney gives us the Kennedy days and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-62872-111-9
EAN: 9781628721119
Produktnummer: 22301686
Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 488 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 32'562 KB

Über den Autor

Richard D. Mahoney, a Kennedy scholar emeritus of the University of Massachusetts, is an expert on international economics and foreign policy and the author of two histories of the Kennedy administration. He was the Democratic secretary of state and acting governor of Arizona. He is currently the director of the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University.David Talbot is the author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon.