Yes, that Joe McCarthy, the Communist hunter who terrified the nation with threats of spies in the government and Hollywood, and pressured people to turn on their friends, until the senator himself was censured. The book, which hit the New York Times’ and Boston Globe’s best-seller lists in the weeks after its publication, opens like a novel, with Kennedy surreptitiously attending the funeral of his early mentor and boss, Sen. Kennedy on June 5, 1968.īut it is based on the years of research, including interviewing Kennedy’s colleagues and relatives, Tye did to write “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.” Cape author Larry Tye believes society would be much less torn by racial and economic divides today if an assassin’s bullet had not struck down U.S.
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