President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty

by Edward R. Schmitt

Robert Kennedy's abbreviated run for the presidency in 1968 has assumed almost mythical proportions in American memory. His campaign has been romanticized because of its tragic end, but also because of the foreign and domestic crises that surrounded it. Yet while most media coverage initially focused on Kennedy's opposition to the Vietnam War as the catalyst of his candidacy, another issue commanded just as much of his attention. That issue was poverty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499040
• ISBN13: 9781558499041
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"