 | The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
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 2008-11-18 - Great Listening!
"Presidential campaigning at its best. Clarke gives all the inside scoop on why Bobby Kennedy ran against an incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, and took away the momentum from Eugene McCarthy. Great listening."
 2008-10-13 - Common Presidential Goals!
The author does a good job of sharing the essence of Bobby Kennedy; particularly while he was running for the nomination to be president. I had forgotten his focus on the poor and minority; "The least of these" so to speak.
I felt that the opening chapter or Forward was a good summary of his attitude and focus. I was reminded of Barak Obama when he first began his campaign. Obama needs to get back to that, to inspiring us!
I am a veteran of the Korean Police Action from 1950 to 1954. Two of my sons were in the service during the Vietnam fiasco, so much of this book was very familiar to me as a father. Two other sons were planning to go to Canada when the war was stopped. I compare the Iraq involvement with our involvement in Vietnam. This book is a good review for all of us.
2008-09-30 - Valuabe insight on Kennedy's campaign
I'm not American, nor was I alive when RFK was murdured, but this book made me travel along with all the Kennedy entourage during those 82 days of campaign (the part that described the death, and aftermath, of Martin Luther King made me feel all the emotion people must have felt), and more that that, gave me the precise picture of what RFK wanted to America, in one word, his philosophy. Even if you have already read more about RFK will not be disapointed.
2008-09-30 - Great book!
This is one of the best books I have read in a long time! It is very personal and inspiring. It is like being on the campaign trial with Robert Kennedy. I would strongly reccomend this book to anyone interested in american politcs.
2008-08-31 - Very good but still lacking period piece
First off this is an excellent profile of the hectic RFK campaign in 1968. It does a wonderful job of expressing the frenetic pace of the campaign and how it inspired hope in so many people. The book does a wonderful job at trying to inspire in the reader the sense of optimism that RFK's campaign inspired in so many groups.
The one great weakness of the book is that it often descends into raising Kennedy to almost a sainthood. It is very obvious that the author admires RFK and thinks he would have made a great president. That maybe but it does cloud the author's work and makes this almost as much of a sports like bio then a work like history.
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