„… - ~ n d . ~ In 1960, Senator John Kennedy-his campaign managed with un- common discipline by his …” „… restoring some order and sanity before Ameri- can society rocketed out of control.18 The Kennedy-McCarthy …” „… ROBERT KENNEDY: THE "NATIONAL SOUL" O n the April night when Martin Luther King Jr. was …”

Index S. 207-216

„… ; effect on 1968 politics, 108; and Humphrey, 117-22; R. Kennedy-Humphrey views, 93; Kerner Commission …” „… , 106 Roman Catholicism, 66; and Kennedys, 82,84; R. Kennedy- McCarthy differences over, 89-90; and …” „… withdrawal from race, 63-64; Humphrey examines, 122-23; R. Kennedy-Humphrey view, 86; E. McCarthy views, 3940 …”

Chapter 2: Senator Eugene McCarthy: The College Student Crusade S. 33-48

„… bitter by Kennedy's late entry. Besides not caring for the Kennedys personally, in 1960 he had worked …” „… John Kennedy's New Frontier pres- idency, the Beatles, and Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech …” „… pres- idency. He hoped that Senator Robert Kennedy (D-NY) would lead the effort. Kennedy was distancing …”

Bibliography S. 199-206

„… foreign policies. For Robert Kennedy, note Jeff Shesol, Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy …” „… : The Amer- ican Romance with Robert Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), a sensitive, critical …” „… account; Joseph A. Palermo, In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert E Kennedy (New York …”

Chapter 7: Hubert Horatio Humphrey: The Isolation of the Politics of JOY S. 115-134

„… superpowers. In 1963, when President Kennedy made the first major breakthrough in arms control by agreeing …” „… : stop Robert Kennedy, whom the president despised. Johnson even secretly pushed a Republican, Nelson …” „… Rockefeller, to enter the race in the be- lief he was the best hope to defeat Kennedy in November. After the …”

Notes S. 181-198

„… NOTES INTRODUCTION 1. Hendrik Hertzberg, "Scaling Mt. Kennedy," hJew Yorker, November 20, 2000, p …” „… Press, 1960). 2. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978 …” „… ), p. 372. 3. Ronald Steel, In Love with the Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy (New York …”

Chapter 4: Martin Luther King: The Dream S. 65-80

„… . Kennedy, the Democratic nominee running in one of the tightest 6 8 T H E D E A D L Y B E T presidential …” „… contests in the nation's history. Kennedy's expression of concern made national headlines and helped him …” „… defeat Richard Nixon in an extremely close race. It did not, however, lead to a close King-Kennedy …”

Introduction War and Democracy: The Life-or-Death Bet S. 1-18

„… run as the vice presidential nominee with John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Johnson served Kennedy …” „… that the historically Democratic region remained united. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963 …” „… . Eisenhower, and Kennedy), who had set out to save South Vietnam from communism. But the heart of Johnson …”

Chapter 3: Lyndon Johnson: "People Grow Tired of Confusion" S. 49-64

„… New Hampshire, despite Robert Kennedy's much ballyhooed entrance into the race in mid-March, Johnson …” „… would no doubt have been renominated for the presidency. Even if McCarthy and Kennedy won all the …” „… money at them. Kennedy and Johnson had escalated the war during an era when the economy was perhaps the …”

Chapter 8: George Wallace: The Populism of the Vietnam War Era S. 135-150

„… the school house door" to keep the students out. President John Kennedy obeyed the court orders and …” „… increasingly large crowds with such rhetoric, his campaign surprisingly picked up many of Robert Kennedy …” „… either Nixon, Humphrey, or McCarthy promised. Many of these former Kennedy supporters were not racist and …”

Chapter 6: Richard Nixon: The Candidate from Squaresville? S. 99-114

„… Robert Kennedy within two months in 1968 seemed to be politically motivated, but they were certainly not …” „… 's presidential nomination. He lost to John F. Kennedy, in part because he did not prepare himself properly for …” „… be a stiff robot or, as occurred during his 1960 televised debate with John Kennedy, having beads of …”

Chapter 9: Nguyen Van Thieu: A Merry-Go-Round in a Chamber of Horrors S. 151-166

„… leaders want any part of the Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy candidacies that surged to the forefront …” „… after Johnson withdrew. The South Vietnamese believed Kennedy the more dangerous, not only because he …” „… debating John Kennedy in the 1960 campaign made him determined not to appear again on the medium unless he …”

Preface

„… Robert Kennedy: The "National Soul" Richard Nixon: The Candidate from Squaresville? Hubert Horatio …”

Conclusion S. 167-180

„… move- ment and the reaction to it. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy represented the growing belief …” „… King and the two Kennedys, along with the hundreds of dead in civil rights riots, the hundreds of …”

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