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Summary: Thought provoking and inspiring
Review: A wonderful collection of speeches from Robert Kennedy's tragically curtailed 1968 presidential campaign. They are challenging, thought provoking & inspiring - as you read them you can only think of what America & the world would have been like if he hadn't been assassinated.What is also striking is how relevant & contemporary the issues & values articulated by RFK are for the times we live in today. Norman Macafee prefaces each speech with thoughts of his own, putting the speeches into the context of not only Robert Kennedy's 1968 campaign but also how & why the issues & beliefs that RFK speaks about matters now. I strongly recommend this book for every RFK admirer who cares about his legacy & what it can still offer to the world.
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Summary: Thought provoking and inspiring
Review: A wonderful collection of speeches from Robert Kennedy's tragically curtailed 1968 presidential campaign. They are challenging, thought provoking & inspiring - as you read them you can only think of what America & the world would have been like if he hadn't been assassinated. What is also striking is how relevant & contemporary the issues & values articulated by RFK are for the times we live in today. Norman Macafee prefaces each speech with thoughts of his own, putting the speeches into the context of not only Robert Kennedy's 1968 campaign but also how & why the issues & beliefs that RFK speaks about matters now. I strongly recommend this book for every RFK admirer who cares about his legacy & what it can still offer to the world.
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Summary: What would Bobby do?
Review: Robert Kennedy's humanity, common sense, humility, and passion shine through his own words in this wonderful little book. The editor, Norman Macafee, does an excellent job of culling the best from the final 1968 campaign speeches. Most movingly, Macafee provides crystal clear brief introductory comments which set the context for each of Bobby's speeches and indicate how relevent his evolving thinking on the key issues of war, poverty, racism is to today's dangerous world. The echos in Kennedy's words of our own times are heart-rendingly prescient. The book's conclusion is achingly clear: if Bobby had lived we would not today be tangled in a pre-emptive war without end.
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Summary: What would Bobby do?
Review: Robert Kennedy's humanity, common sense, humility, and passion shine through his own words in this wonderful little book. The editor, Norman Macafee, does an excellent job of culling the best from the final 1968 campaign speeches. Most movingly, Macafee provides crystal clear brief introductory comments which set the context for each of Bobby's speeches and indicate how relevent his evolving thinking on the key issues of war, poverty, racism is to today's dangerous world. The echos in Kennedy's words of our own times are heart-rendingly prescient. The book's conclusion is achingly clear: if Bobby had lived we would not today be tangled in a pre-emptive war without end.
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