Becoming Bobby Kennedy The Transformative Life of an American Icon

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Title: Becoming Bobby Kennedy The Transformative Life of an American Icon
Author: B.J. Hollars
Category: Civil Rights, Political, 20th Century
Language: English | 224 Pages | ISBN: 9781640127135


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While the broad strokes of Robert F. Kennedy's life are well known-from presidential campaign manager to attorney general, senator, and presidential candidate-far less is understood about the deeper forces that shaped his extraordinary transformation. How did an entitled, silver-spooned prep school kid become a champion for the poor and oppressed?
Although his brother's assassination in 1963 marked the turning point, it was Bobby's own encounters with suffering and injustice that truly recalibrated his moral compass. From summiting Canada's Mount Kennedy to speaking in apartheid-era South Africa, from descending into Chilean coal mines to navigating the piranha-infested waters of the Amazon, Kennedy sought to understand the lives of those the world ignored. His moral awakening continued closer to home-in the hunger-stricken shacks in the Mississippi Delta, the impoverished hills and hollers of eastern Kentucky, and the backroads of Pine Ridge Indian...