The sight of children living amid squalor affected Kennedy, himself the father of 11, deeply, Tye says, and made him determined to fight for change.
senator to places of great American poverty. Instead, he finds signposts along the way, especially in Kennedy’s travels as attorney general and U.S. It’s a startling transition when illuminated in this way, and Tye can’t point to one particular cause. Joseph McCarthy to admirer of Communist revolutionaries and advocate of racial healing during Kennedy’s fateful 1968 presidential campaign. Kennedy’s evolution from acolyte of red-baiting 1950s Sen.
This admiring - but not blindly so - biography traces Robert F. “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon,” by Larry Tye, read by Marc Cashman.
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