{"product_id":"sons-and-brothers-the-days-of-jack-and-bobby-kennedy","title":"Sons and Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy","description":"This intriguing book brings a fresh perspective to bear on the intimate, charged partnership of John and Robert Kennedy. The author, Richard D. Mahoney, whose father was a friend of Bobby's and an appointee of Jack's, has both the academic and political experience necessary to evaluate evidence of the Kennedys' relations with the Mafia, anti-Castro rebels, and other groups lurking in the shadows of American life. He also has a sharp eye for the brothers' differing yet complementary personalities. Jack was intellectual and cheerfully cynical, with a zest for pleasure increased by a life-threatening illness concealed from the public. He looked to passionate, partisan Bobby for bulldog-like political support and used his brother as a \"moral compass\" when planning his administration's actions on civil rights, the corruption of organized labor, and the containment of Communism. Their powerful father, Joseph--whose deep pockets basically bought Jack the presidency and at the same time compromised it because of Joseph's links to organized crime--looms over the brothers as the author of a Faustian bargain that may well have played a role in JFK's assassination. Mahoney's vivid, compulsively readable text offers suggestive questions rather than definitive answers, but it certainly succeeds as a bracing corrective to \"America's inability to see its history as tragedy,\" a failure Jack and Bobby emphatically did not share. --Wendy Smith","brand":"Mahoney, Richard D.","offers":[{"title":"Good - First Edition","offer_id":54229212758299,"sku":"mon0000804091","price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/8526123482743.jpg?v=1791928246","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/sons-and-brothers-the-days-of-jack-and-bobby-kennedy","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}