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

· Simon and Schuster
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176
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This book will become available on November 11, 2025. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this ebook

From the host of Hardball (now on Substack) 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 the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit; Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero; Kennedy & Nixon: A Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America; and Hardball: How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game. Matthews was a presidential speechwriter and top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. For a generation, he hosted Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC, which is now exclusively on Substack.

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