A work in progress
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon. By Larry Tye. Random House; 580 pages; $32.
ROBERT KENNEDY remains an enigma nearly 50 years after he was gunned down in a Los Angeles hotel, in the midst of a promising presidential campaign. He was fearsome yet gentle, an anti-communist stalwart who became the standard-bearer for American liberals, and a moralistic, devout Catholic who covered up his brother’s affairs (and, some suspect, his own) and embraced dirty political fights.
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