Whistle Stopper - A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.923092
EAN: 9780810971226
ISBN: 0810971224
Label: Abrams
Manufacturer: Abrams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2008-06-01
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date: 2008-04-30
Studio: Abrams

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Summary: Great pics!
Comment: Bought this for my dad for father's day. Great pictures of a memorable time in history with a visonary who lost his light too soon!

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Summary: Back to The Future
Comment: This book and its images were all the more gripping having been an observer at the time. The photos and the words provide an image of a nation trying to be the sum of its promise, only to be plunged into a tragic self assessment after the assassination.
It is paramount, 40 years later, that we take the opportunity to remember how far we have come. This book reminds us that we can do better, that we must do better, that we are better.

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Summary: a time it was
Comment: it's photgraphs of the campain are stunning the brief narrative gives a true sense of sumer 1968

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Summary: Memory Lane
Comment: This book of pictures was a wonderful walk down memory lane for me. At 16 I was to join the Kennedy campaign as a volunteer after the California primary. On the morning I was to depart, my parents woke me with the news of his shooting. This book, however, reminded me of the promise unfulfilled Robert Kennedy represented--how much better we would have been as a people, as a country, as a government had he been president in 1969 instead of Richard Nixon.

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Summary: Great service
Comment: I got plenty of information about this order. When it was slightly delayed, I was informed, as well as when it shipped. I was very impressed with the service.

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On June 6, 1968, at the age of 42 and at the height of his popularity, Robert F. Kennedy was tragically assassinated. Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator, father—Kennedy was all of these things—and, to many Americans, he embodied the power of possibility and positive change during a period of social unrest, racial inequality, and war.

Renowned Life photographer Bill Eppridge followed and photographed Kennedy during his early campaign days up to his untimely death, and A Time It Was features dynamic images of the public Kennedy, as well as rare, intimate ones, many of which have never before been published. An essay by Pete Hamill places the events in historical context, while Eppridge shares his insider’s perspective on Kennedy. Released to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Kennedy’s death, A Time It Was reveals why the memory and legacy of Kennedy and his dreams continue to be relevant today.