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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews.

MSNBC host Chris Matthews has never made a secret of his admiration for John F. Kennedy, but he's always longed to know more about an.

Matthews's extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top political aide Kenneth O'Donnell and.

In his captivating new biography, Chris Matthews sets out to answer the questions: What was JFK like?

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit () by Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's Hardball, chronicles the life of Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of.

Matthews's extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top political aide Kenneth O'Donnell and..

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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
by Chris Matthews
416 pages
Simon & Schuster
Release Date: October 31, 2017

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One of the most anticipated political biographies of 2017, Chris Matthews’ “Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit” has been described as an admiring but relatively light-weight biography of this brash, charismatic and sometimes ruthless member of the Kennedy clan.

There are already two highly-regarded and seasoned biographies of Robert Kennedy (Arthur Schlesinger’s 1978 “Robert Kennedy and His Times” and Evan Thomas’s 2000 “Robert Kennedy: His Life“) as well as a relatively new biography by Larry Tye (“Robert Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon“).

As a result, it is not yet clear that Matthew’s biography of RFK is, historically speaking, substantially more than a collection of personal reminiscences.

Nevertheless, Matthews’ biography is current