![]() ![]() ![]() “Candidates from either party could run today on the same issues and champion the same causes that Kennedy had in 1968, since little has been done to address them,” he writes.Ĭlarke maintains that after Kennedy finally threw himself into the campaign, he was almost mystically transformed. ![]() is again mired in a costly and divisive war, led by an unpopular president, and racial divisions are again roiling the country. Forty years after Sirhan Sirhan cut down Robert Kennedy at the height of his grueling campaign to win the Democratic Party nomination, Thurston Clarke has produced an almost worshipful account of him during a frenetic time that bears disturbing similarities to our own.Ĭlarke’s timing is no accident. ![]()
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