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ROBERT F. KENNEDY Biography of a Compulsive Politician, by Allen Roberts, ISBN 0828318905, ISBN 9780828318907, Kindle Edition, $9.99

This book begins with the tragedy of November 22, 1963, the day that John F. Kennedy was murdered, and ends with the tragedy of June 6, 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was also murdered.
In exhaustive details, the author presents Bobby’s many faceted-life—from the time of his youth to that of his death at the hands of an assassin. Consummate interpretations bring into focus a youthful but complex man caught in vital dilemmas of his time. Bobby was ruthless in dealing with criminals, quixotic in U.S. foreign relations, yet compulsive in everything he did, from learning how to swim(wherein he almost drowned to prove he could swim when he could not), to his doomed quest for the highly contested Presidency of the United States.
Bobby became most controversial when he was made Attorney General by his president brother. Accusations of nepotism stuck with him till the day he died. Suspicious were also his relations with individuals like Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Peter Lawford. His secret ambition, however, was to become president of the United States.