Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters

· Simon and Schuster
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About this audiobook

From the former host of MSNBC’s Hardball and acclaimed Kennedy biographer Chris Matthews comes a centennial tribute about why Robert F. Kennedy's revolutionary vision offers the roadmap America needs today.

Bobby Kennedy exemplified moral leadership and political bravery. He led us in pursuit of ideals. He took risks for peace and united us. Look at our country now, with its wide and deepening divisions. 100 years after his birth, RFK matters more than ever. On Bobby’s centennial, Chris Matthews, one of America’s foremost political commentators and Kennedy biographers, gives us ten electrifying lessons for today taken from Bobby’s life. Take them as a roadmap. America is great when it tries, at its best, to be good. This special anniversary book also includes a selection of Bobby Kennedy’s greatest speeches.

About the author

Chris Matthews is a distinguished Professor of American Politics and Media at Fulbright University Vietnam. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit; Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero; Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked; Kennedy & Nixon; and Hardball. For twenty years, he anchored Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC.

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