Description: Originally published in hardcover in 1969 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Brief description:
Jules Witcover has been writing from Washington on politics and history since 1954, first for the Newhouse Newspapers, then the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Star and Baltimore Sun, and his column is syndicated by the [Chicago] Tribune Company. His twenty books include 85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy, The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon, The Year the Dream Died: Revisitng 1968 in America, accounts of the presidential elections from 1976 through 1992, and biographies of Vice Presidents Spiro Agnew and Joe Biden.
Review Quotes:
"Powerfully evokes the passion, the possibilities, the frustrations, the joys and the sadnesses of Robert Kennedy's strange attempt at the Democratic nomination for President." - New York Times Book Review