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Robert Kennedy and His Times Volume 1

Arthur M. Jr. Schlesinger

Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMES is "a picture of a deeply compassionate man hid...

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It was a 983-page book that the speaker read cover to cover during his summer internship in 1988. He was deeply impacted by it and still has a well-worn copy with underlined passages.

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The cover contained the boast, The Magnificent Nationwide Bestseller, and this mournful question, Who can say what might have been?

— Episode: Note From Preet: A Ripple of Hope

Episode: Note From Preet: A Ripple of Hope

It was a 983-page book that the speaker read cover to cover during his summer internship in 1988. He was deeply impacted by it and still has a well-worn copy with underlined passages.

"

The cover contained the boast, The Magnificent Nationwide Bestseller, and this mournful question, Who can say what might have been?

each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope. In crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

he was determined to transform the department from a citadel of starry decisis into an agency of reform.

If I worked in this mine, I'd be a communist too.

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