Word: kennedyism
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It's impossible not to be saddened by Thurston Clarke's look at Robert F. Kennedy's 82-day quest for the White House. Even if THE LAST CAMPAIGN (Henry Holt; 321 pages) did not begin with a moving account of Kennedy's funeral train (which it does), the story...
Yet that sense of inevitability also makes it an exhilarating read, for rarely since has a politician of such stature embarked on a campaign so genuinely wedded to the concepts of sacrifice and moral empathy. Clarke's day-to-day account of the period from March 1968, when Kennedy announced...
Kennedy seemed to delight in telling audiences the opposite of what they wanted to hear. Amid the era's taut racial tensions, he spent more time asking white audiences to step into the shoes of aggrieved blacks than he did pandering to their desire for law and order. In Clarke...
For myself, it seems that I have been writing about him forever, back to when John F. Kennedy ’40 was only a first-term senator and Ted was a starting end for Harvard, catching a deflected pass in a snowstorm for a touchdown against Yale.
For Americans of a certain age, Ted has been the Kennedy we saw grow old, in contrast to his martyred brothers, whom we remember for their vibrancy, and whose precluded later years we can only guess at. But for the majority who are too young to recall his brothers, he...