The Kennedy Legacy: A Peaceful Revolution for the Seventies [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] [VINTAGE 1969]

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Fine unread condition maroon cloth boards with bright gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Theodore Sorensen; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Page Quote by William Butler Yeats; Prologue and Index. "Theodore C. Sorensen, though only forty-one, has been for nearly two decades more closely associated with the ideas and ideals of John and Robert Kennedy than any other human being. For eleven years he was known as John F. Kennedy's "alter ego," lawyer, advisor, speechwriter, and "intellectual blood bank," serving in the White House from 1961 to 1964 as Special Counsel to the President. After publication in 1965 of his best-selling Kennedy, regarded as the definitive work on JFK, he returned to the practice of law in New York, where he was frequently consulted on policy and politics by his client, old friend, and colleague from the New Frontier, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In 1968, when RFK launched his own bid for the Presidency, Ted Sorensen helped manage the campaign on a full-time basis. After the Robert Kennedy assassination, and after the rejection by the Democratic National Cnvention at Chicago of the Vietnam "peace plank" that Sorensen helped draft, it was widely assumed that the concepts and philosophy of John and Robert Kennedy had also died in that Los Angeles hospital. The recent removal of Senator Edward Kennedy as a 1972 Presidential prospect reinforced the assumption that the Kennedy philosophy was a purely academic matter without a Kennedy in the White House. The Kennedy Legacy rejects the view that only myths and memories remain. What John and Robert Kennedy started, Sorensen points out, others are determined to finish. What they once stood for, millions now stand for. It is this living legacy of hope and reason that offers millions of despairing young Americans of every color a rational, peaceful but revolutionary approach to our outmoded domestic institutions and foreign policy. The Kennedy Legacy is not biography. But it traces the genesis, development, contrasts, and contents of these concepts as they evolved in the lives and behind-the-scenes thoughts of these two remarkable brothers. Because Ted Sorensen was intimately involved for some sixtteen years in the shaping of that legacy, his first-hand account provides historically valuable answers to such questions as: Would John F. Kennedy, had he lived, have pursued the same course in Vietnam as Lyndon Johnson, a course much criticized by RFK? What lay behind the feud between Robert Kenned and his brother's successor? Is there one "Kennedy legacy" or were the supposedly stylish Jack and the supposedly ruthless Bobby so different as to leave two separate legacies? What did the Kennedys really think about Dean Rusk, the CIA, Communist China, and wire-tapping? Most importantly, The Kennedy Legacy looks ahead. Without claiming for himself the mantle of sole spokesman or legatee, Sorensen offers his view on how the Kennedy approach should be applied to the issues now dividing the country. While he is realistic about the crises confronting this nation in the 1970s, he offers to all who feel helpless in the face of America's vast, impersonal, and anachronistic establishments a series of common sense remedies." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Título

The Kennedy Legacy: A Peaceful Revolution for the Seventies [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] [VINTAGE 1969]

Editor

The Macmillan Company, New York

Fecha de publicación

1969

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Ilustrador

Nasser, Muriel (jacket design)

Edición

1st Edition

Impresión

1st Printing

Estado

Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Fine