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Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

by Robert F. Kennedy · 1988

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Published 20 years after his death, here are Robert Kennedy's startlingly candid recollections of what went on behind the Camelot curtain—everything from the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis to first-hand observations about Khruschev, early Civil Rights, and Lyndon Johnson. 16 pages of photos.

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long · 493 pages

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