RFK: Collected Speeches - Hardcover

Kennedy, Robert F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670848735 ISBN 13: 9780670848737

Publisher: Viking, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of speeches by Robert F. Kennedy, arranged chronologically, are woven together with a narrative that places them in global and national context and are illustrated with pages of photographs. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

IN HONOR OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ROBERT KENNEDY’S DEATH, AN INSPIRING COLLECTION OF HIS MOST FAMOUS SPEECHES ACCOMPANIED BY COMMENTARY FROM NOTABLE HISTORIANS AND PUBLIC FIGURES

Twenty-five years after Robert Kennedy was assassinated, RFK: Collected Speeches, a celebration of Kennedy’s life and legacy, was published and immediately became the standard for activists, elected officials, and lovers of language and history. Now, a quarter century later, this classic volume has been thoroughly edited and updated. 

Through his own words we gain a direct and intimate perspective on Kennedy’s views on civil rights and social justice, war and the quest for peace, poverty and the power of work, and the common aspirations that unify us across the divides of race, gender, age, and circumstances. With messages of hope in the midst of a fractured nation and globe, Kennedy’s words speak to our times as strongly as they did to his own, a legacy testified to here by highly individualized reflections from notables, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, five Nobel Peace Prize laureates, two Pulitzer Prize winners, the holder of twenty-two Grammy Awards, Fortune magazine’s Businessperson of the Year, and others.

Placed in the context of Kennedy’s life and times, accompanied by a rich selection of photographs (some never before published), and assembled with the cooperation of the Kennedy family, RFK: His Words for Our Times summons Robert Kennedy’s vision of a truly greater America, as compelling now and for our future as it was in his lifetime.

About the Author:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper, and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a clinical professor and supervising attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law. A former assistant district attorney for New York City, he is the coauthor of The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670848735
• ISBN 13: 9780670848737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Guthman Edwin O.