The Revolution of Robert Kennedy ─ From Power to Protest After JFK

On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call from Dallas that altered his life forever. The president, his brother, had been shot. He would not survive.

In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, political journalist John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years following JFK's assassination. As Attorney General, Bobby had little time to mourn his brother, forced instead to consider his future in politics and as the head of the Kennedy family. No longer the president's closest advisor, he struggled to find his place within the Johnson administration, eventually deciding to leave his cabinet post to run for the Senate (he won in New York) and later for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. But he could never have done so without having grown from hard-line Attorney General to champion of the common man. His tragic assassination on the campaign trail in 1968 ended what could well have been one of the brilliant presidencies of our time.

The Revolution of Robert Kennedy reveals RFK's secret campaign to corner Johnson into offering him the Vice Presidency, his uncomfortable transition from strategist to candidate, and his struggle over the Vietnam War amidst a punishing media landscape. It follows him on the journey from memorializing his brother's legacy to defining his own. John Bohrer's rich, insightful portrait of Robert Kennedy is biography at its best--inviting readers into the mind and heart of one of America's great leaders.