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Title: Robert F. Kennedy: A Spiritual Biography (Lives & Legacies) by Konstantin Sidorenko ISBN: 0-8245-2355-5 Publisher: Crossroad 8th Avenue Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (24 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Big disappointment
Comment: I've read many/most of the RFK bios out there, and was really excited to pick up this one. While I doubted so slim a book could contain much insight, I was hopeful as I read the book jacket & skimmed the pages that this would be a much-needed corrective to all the half-truths, negativity, and speculation that has afflicted even such promising RFK efforts as Evan Thomas's book of a couple years ago.
I was really disappointed! First, the book is even slimmer than it looks because there are several pages of photographs in there. There are also some really glaring errors of grammar, punctuation, and even fact in this book. One that comes immediately to mind: in the bibliography, Sidorenko indicates he relied on Jeff Shesol's "Mutual Contempt," which is listed as being published in 1977. Jeff Shesol wasn't even in in high school in 1977 (his book was actually published in 1997). The writing style is clunky. Take this example from page 130: "Time sobered heads inebriated by shock. Robert Kennedy began a process that took about six days. Most meetings the president did not attend. Security required that all seem normal at the White House." Inebriated by shock? WHAT process? I thought the subject was RFK, not the president.
Actually, I blame the editors & publisher far more than the author. This book is part of some series called "Lives & Legacies," but there's no explanation of what the series is all about, and if this is how the whole series is edited, I wouldn't buy another book in it at all. In fact, I'd avoid any books put out by this seemingly bush-league publisher.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rooted in religion
Comment: If there's one thing that makes Robert Kennedy enduring, it is the real and symbolic gestures of genuine hope and belief in the American political system he produced in the hearts and minds of Americans.
Mr. Sidoranko's treatment of Kennedy is stellar, fresh, and thankfully does not succumb to the heroizing syndrome that we can so easily criticize in other Kennedy accounts and authors.
This book, refraining from distracting hyperbole, maintains a compassionate leaning-towards but fair-minded, even sometimes, somewhat dispassionate tone.
Sidoranko's convincingly sustained argument for Robert Kennedy's spiritual/religious dynamic will make a useful contribution to further examination of an extremely important politician and historical figure of ever-increasing national interest and debate.
Rating: 4
Summary: Inspiring
Comment: The focus of this book--RFK's spirituality as a genuine force of his character and life--is a warm-blooded debate and is a highly charged and complex idea, deserving of closer scrutiny. RFK aficionados will appreciate Sidorenko's sophisticated understanding of Kennedy's disparate impulses and his indiosynchratic basis of belief and faith, while the general reader will enjoy his uncluttered analysis. Engaging reading especially for those new to Kennedy.
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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: "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: 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: 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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