The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now: New Expanded Edition

The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now: New Expanded Edition

by Norman MacAfee
The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now: New Expanded Edition

The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now: New Expanded Edition

by Norman MacAfee

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Overview

As he campaigned for the presidency in 1968, Robert Kennedy outlined what seems today a redemptive vision for America. Tirelessly, before the kinds of vast crowds reserved for rock stars, RFK articulated with passionate eloquence the disasters of a misguided war, the pain of the dispossessed, and the way out of war and poverty. And then, 81 days into the campaign, he was assassinated. Now, in The Gospel According to RFK , writer Norman MacAfee has brought together for the first time the best of Kennedy's presidential campaign speeches and contributes lively and engaging commentary that makes them fresh, relevant, and especially timely.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465003587
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Norman MacAfee's other books include the poetry books, One Class; The Coming of Fascism to America; and A New Requiem; and The Death of the Forest, opera to music of Charles Ives. MacAfee co-translated a volume of the poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini; two volumes of the letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, Witness to My Life and Quiet Moments in a War; and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. He lives in New York City.

What People are Saying About This

Robert F. Drinan

Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Those who read this inspiring volume will acquire a deeper admiration and gratitude for Kennedy than they ever had before.

Vine Deloria Jr.

A badly needed corrective offering compassion, understanding, and optimism.
— (Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died for Your Sins)

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