Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEIR APPARENT, by William V. Shannon, is as often critical, usually dispassionate but at times frankly sympathetic assessment of Bobby and his attempt to bring about a Kennedy Restoration...
Died. Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost...
...HEIR APPARENT by William V. Shannon. 309 pages. Macmillan...
...York Times Editorial Writer William Shannon is more compelling than its predecessors. Shannon is a native of Massachusetts, a Harvard graduate, an Irish Catholic and a liberal Democrat-the perfect candidate, it would seem, to write an admiring or even adoring book about Bobby. The surprise is that The Heir Apparent is often severely critical. But it is always dispassionate in its analysis and at times sympathetic...
...likeliest date, but not Shannon. Johnson could lose in 1968, forcing Bobby to challenge a well-entrenched Republican in 1972, or he could die in office, leaving Hubert Humphrey in his place with a powerful claim on the next nomination. As Shannon makes clear, the heir apparent may find considerable difficulty in trying to bring about the Kennedy Restoration...