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Title: Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope by Peter Edelman ISBN: 0-395-89544-8 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 22 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Heartbreaking How Little Ground We Have Covered Since RFK
Comment: Edelman's book examines the failures Welfare Reform--essentially punishing the poor--and how Bill Clinton co-opted RFK's memory to push his own centrist agenda. This is the kind of book conservatives hate, because it is hard to refute on emotional or straw man grounds.
Rating: 1
Summary: Unintentionally Funny
Comment: I got a very few laughs out of this very dreary little tome. "Chapter One - RFK: The Man Who Loved Children" rather unironically resembles hagiographic bios of Uncle Joe and Uncle Adolf, among other leaders who cultivated public images of being friends of the little ones. If you enjoy pious, sentimental and self-congratulatory trips down memory lane, you'll love this book. Otherwise, I'd suggest that you take a pass.
Rating: 5
Summary: Remembering the forgotten Americans
Comment: Robert Kennedy had a rare understanding of the poor, and he tried to help those that live in poverty. He understood poverty in terms of individual faces; and not as a nameless mass of people that can be easily grouped together or defined. Often he would go and meet people that lived in desperate conditions of poverty. He cared enough to go to places that other political leaders would avoid. Peter Edelman worked for Robert Kennedy in the years from 1964-1968. He believes that the vision that Robert Kennedy had for America's poor is still very valid today. That vision is presented in "Searching For America's Heart". Kennedy believed in a very broad based effort against poverty that recognized the responsibility of government and all other segments of society; combined together with the vital responsibility of the individual. He believed that there should always be a safety net for those in dire need. He genuinely wanted to help people to have a better life, and to care for their children. That spirit has often been lost in today's world, and millions of Americans, a great number of them children; still live in poverty. Most of the poor are rarely thought about or seen by other people, and it is almost as if they do not exist at all. They are truly the forgotten Americans. But Edelman points out that there is much that we can do that could change this tragic reality, and that we can remember the heart that Robert Kennedy saw in America. That American heart is defined by decency, justice and fairness for all citizens. This book presents the challenge of finding and rekindling that most essential American heart.
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Title: "An Honorable Profession" : A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy by Pierre Salinger ISBN: 0385471270 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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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: Robert Kennedy : His Life by Evan Thomas ISBN: 0743203291 Publisher: Touchstone Books 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: In His Own Right by Joseph A. Palermo ISBN: 0231120699 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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