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Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy
Last Patrician Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy Author:Michael Knox Beran A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Three decades after Robert Kennedy's death, his complexities and contradictions continue to fascinate and perplex Americans. In The Last Patrician, Michael Knox Beran offers a much-needed reassessment of the man, one that will force many to rethink what they thought they knew. Challenging... more » the claims of Arthur Schlesinger, Jack Newfield, and others, Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy came, at the end of his life, to question the assumptions of a liberal faith that was at odds with his own deepest beliefs. In reconstructing Kennedy's forgotten critique of the postwar liberal imagination, The Last Patrician explains the most revolutionary of all his controversial acts - his break with the patrician caste to which he and his brothers had been brought up to belong, a powerful ruling class that was undermining some of America's most cherished traditions.« less