Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade.
Economist (US), The, November, 1997
MUTUAL CONTEMPT: LYNDON JOHNSON, ROBERT KENNEDY, AND THE FEUD THAT DEFINED A DECADE. By Jeff Shesol. Norton; 591 pages; $29.95
THE reversals in the fortunes of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy during the "decade" ending in 1968 were not just dramatic. They were melodramatic. As the 1950s ended, Johnson, 52 years old and six foot three inches (1.9 metres) tall, dominated the Senate as its majority leader and was considered by many to be the second most powerful man in America. Robert Kennedy, 18 years younger and six inches shorter, had held no elective office (he was a staff member in the Senate). His main claim to fame was that he was the brother of John Kennedy, an uninfluential senator who nonetheless stood a good chance of winning the presidency.
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