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Article: Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade.
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- January 26, 1998
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By the end of the 1 960s, the Democratic Party had surrendered control of the White House; more importantly, it had enthusiastically embarked on an orgy of self-mutilation from which it has never quite recovered. With Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and the Feud That Defined a Decade (W.W. Norton, 576 pp), first-time author Jeff Sheshol offers a valuable retelling of one of the key stations in the Democratic via dolorosa -- the acrimonious relationship between Sen. Robert Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson.
It says something about the current state of American scholarship that one of the finest political histories of recent years should be ...