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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: American values
    sub title: lessons I learned from my family
  name:
    name part: Kennedy, Robert Francis
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In this powerful book that combines the best aspects of memoir and political history, the third child of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of JFK takes us on an intimate journey through his life, including watershed moments in the history of our nation. Stories of his grandparents Joseph and Rose set the stage for their nine remarkable children, among them three U.S. senators, Teddy, Bobby and Jack, one of whom went on to become attorney general, and the other, the president of the United States. We meet Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover, two men whose agencies posed the principal threats to American democracy and values. Their power struggles with the Kennedys underpinned all the defining conflicts of the era. We live through the Cuban Missile Crisis, when insubordinate spies and belligerent generals in the Pentagon and Moscow brought the world to the cliff edge of nuclear war. At Hickory Hill in Virginia, where RFK Jr. grew up, we encounter the celebrities who gathered at the second most famous address in Washington, members of what would later become known as America's Camelot. Through his father's role as attorney general we get an insider's look as growing tensions over civil rights led to pitched battles in the streets and 16,000 federal troops were called in to enforce desegregation at Ole Miss. We see growing pressure to fight wars in southeast Asia to stop communism. We relive the assassination of JFK, RFK's run for the presidency that was cut short by his own death and the aftermath of those murders on the Kennedy family. These pages come vividly to life with intimate stories of RFK Jr.'s own experiences, not just with historical events and the movers who shaped them but also with his mother and father, with his own struggles with addiction and with the ways he eventually made peace with both his Kennedy legacy and his own demons. The result is a lyrically written book that is remarkably stirring and relevant, providing insight, hope and steady wis…
  table of contents: Grandpa -- Grandma -- The Skakels -- The White House -- Hickory Hill -- Attorney General -- JFK : in pursuit of peace -- A farewell to Camelot -- Senator Robert F. Kennedy -- The final campaign -- Lem -- My mother.
  note: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kennedy, Robert Francis
      name part: 1954-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kennedy, Robert F
      name part: 1925-1968
    topic: Family
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kennedy family
  subject:
    topic: Environmental lawyers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Environmentalists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Political
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Rich & Famous
  classification: CT275.K4585253 A3 2018
  classification: 973.922092 B
  identifier: 9780060848347
  identifier: 0060848340
  identifier: 2017279088
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181102
    record change date: 20190422100129.0
    record identifier: in00004038629