Bobby Kennedy

The author of twenty books, including Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Larry Tye was given unprecedented access to the Kennedy family by the Kennedy family to write this in-depth, vibrant biography. Tye masterfully weaves together the story of Robert F. Kennedy’s formative years as a lawyer in Boston to his death on June 6, 1968. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight. But Kennedy—nurtured on the rightist orthodoxy of his dynasty-building father—started his public life as counsel to the left-baiting, table-thumping Senator Joseph McCarthy and masterminded his brother’s whatever-it-takes bids for senator and president. A bare-knuckled political operative who approved FBI wiretaps of Martin Luther King Jr. and cloak-and-dagger operations against communist Cuba that included blowing up railroad bridges and sabotaging crops, Kennedy also plotted to have Fidel Castro assassinated.