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Title: "An Honorable Profession" : A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy by Pierre Salinger ISBN: 0-385-47127-0 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a great tribute
Comment: "An Honorable Profession" : A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy, is one of the best memorial book of rfk, there are a lot of picture and some newspapers article.
the texts are good and interesting, it is never boring.
I recommend it to all rfk admires
Rating: 5
Summary: touching tribute, inspirational words
Comment: There are beautiful poems, touching stories, and inspirational words in this book. I learned a lot about the good and decent man and his course. I sensed the feelings and spirits of so many Americans at that troubled time. There has never been a book of tributes after reading which I have been filled with so many hopes, though so sad at the same time... Robert F. Kennedy died in the course of the honorable profession, but he did not die in vain. His course made the profession an HONORABLE one, and made people believe that we can do better, and that we can also make our profession honorable.
Rating: 4
Summary: AN HONORABLE MAN
Comment: This beautifully written biography of the late Senator Robert Kennedy does an excellent job of focusing on not only the man's career, but the issues and questions he was confronted with, such as civil rights, poverty and the disenfranchised citizens.
Robert Kennedy had a very impressive resume -- father of 11, an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a law degree from University of Virginia, attorney, Attorney General, Senator and lastly, presidential candidate for the 1968 election.
This was a man who apparently set high standards for himself throughout his life. The seventh of 9 children, he fought to prove himself among his siblings. As a boy, he strove to develop his physical prowess. One can smile at the young Bobby, then 4 trying to teach himself to swim despite his older brothers' chagrin. The same small boy who kept jumping in deep water would, 35 years later climb a previously unscaled mountain. Robert Kennedy, by then a senator suffered from acrophobia his entire life, yet pushed himself to climb that mountain. In March of 1965 he would table his fear and, with veteran mountain climbers Jim Whittaker and Barry Prather (both of whom had scaled Mt. Everest in 1963) ascend Mt. Kennedy in Canada. He climbed that mountain out of love for his slain brother, the late President. This particular event is inspirational; this man faced his biggest fear and acted out of love.
As a boy, Robert Kennedy grappled with a mild form of dyslexia. Although by all accounts he learned to read within normal limits and was certainly an intelligent man, he learned early to combine his intelligence with diligence and very hard work. In adult life he would seek solace in classic literature; by 1964 he was able to quote long passages by authors such as Camus and Aeschylus by heart. The title of this book is a nod to the Senator's love of classic literature; "An Honorable Profession" is from "The 39 Steps" by Lord Tweedsmuir.
Diligence appeared to be the core Robert Kennedy; the man who drilled himself in academic pursuits was the man who would also set high standards for himself throughout his professional/political career. In reading this work one cannot help drawing the conclusion that Robert Kennedy was at core a good man and a sincere man and a man who would stop at nothing to accomplish all tasks he had set for himself. His daughter Kerry Kennedy Cuomo's input provides some enlightening insights into the characteristics of this complex, often driven man.
In reading this work as with many on Robert Kennedy, one can readily draw the conclusion that this man genuinely cared about people; his work with and for civil rights certainly attests to his deep level of empathy. He appeared to move and blend with equal ease among all people. Robert Kennedy could easily be described as the man for everybody. He was certainly a strong voice and considered by many to be the advocate for all.
In 1968 Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles, California. His loss leaves the questions open today of what he would have accomplished had he lived to win the 1968 election.
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Title: Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy by Robert F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy ISBN: 0151003564 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 18 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope by Peter Edelman ISBN: 0395895448 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 22 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Robert Kennedy : His Life by Evan Thomas ISBN: 0743203291 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Robert F. Kennedy: A Spiritual Biography (Lives & Legacies) by Konstantin Sidorenko ISBN: 0824523555 Publisher: Crossroad 8th Avenue Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. ISBN: 0345410610 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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