Review: Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews

Title: Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Author: Chris Matthews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: October 31, 2017
Edition: Kindle (416 pages)
Genres:

• Nonfiction
• Biography
• History

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Chris Matthews, MSNBC’s Hardball anchor, has written another book about the Kennedy family. This time, a biography of Robert Kennedy. The book, I think, captures the spirit of Bobby Kennedy throughout his life--his beliefs and his humanity--and how he managed to help his brother run for political office and serve as President of the United States, and yet still remain his own person.

This is the best biography of Robert Kennedy I have read to date. Not only does it paint a vivid picture of the man, but also of the times in which he lived, especially of the 1960s. For those of us who lived through the 1960s, it is impossible to forget them, and equally as impossible to forget Robert Kennedy. I was a young girl in 1968, and I cannot overstate how proud I felt when I listened to him speak about the need to help all Americans, and how I admired what he did as he traveled across the country to see how people lived and to see what he could do to make things better.

If you want to learn about this man and understand his spirit and vision, I highly recommend this book.