![]() ![]() Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of A Liberal Icon doesn’t shrink from his subject’s failings. But Bobby had once argued equally passionately for intervening in Vietnam, he’d okayed the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr., and he launched his career as counsel to the left-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy. Kennedy as he was in his crusade for president in 1968 – a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and an advocate for our getting out of Vietnam. It tells the story of a remarkable young woman who keeps her neighbors alive until the D-Day invasion liberates their Normandy town from Nazi Occupation. Then, we honor D-Day (June 6, 1944) by talking with Stephen Kiernan about his novel The Baker’s Secret. ![]() Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon. We talk with Larry Tye about his superb biography of Robert F. First, we explore the life of Bobby Kennedy, a life cut short on June 6, 1968. This week, we commemorate two momentous June 6 anniversaries. ![]()
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