Category: Political Science Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN-10: 1412853621
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 260
Copyright: March 2014
ISBN-13: 9781412853620
This is a unique book about RFK, because it undertakes to present an understanding of his statesmanship---both as a national leader and as a global human rights advocate and social justice leader. The book is also unique in that it analyzes and discusses the history of the decades before RFK's time in power with JFK and also what happened during his time in power with JFK and as a US Senator on his own. Finally, the book looks at what has happened to the RFK legacy during the decades following his assassination. Quotes from Kennedy's speeches and an historical, political and economic discussion of these three periods surrounding RFK's time in power place Robert Kennedy "in the stream of history."
Robert Kennedy's statesmanship is at the center of this book. By employing quotes from his speeches and interviews, as well as his contemporaries, a picture emerges of a political leader who led the fight for civil and human rights not only in the US, but around the world. RFK's contribution to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, as well as his struggles for land reform and social justice in Latin America through the Alliance for Progress are discussed,. His battles with the Rockefellers and Wall Street are juxtaposed to his own progressive agenda which was often linked to the social movements and protests for social justice in his time and our own time. Therefore, his legacy is looked at in terms of what he inherited from FDR and JFK, how he used and updated those principles in his own time, and what has happened to his legacy in the decades which have followed his tragic assassination in 1968.
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