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Politics

Getting Right with Bobby

The strange lure of Robert F. Kennedy

John Pitney | From the April 2001 issue

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Robert Kennedy: His Life, by Evan Thomas, New York: Simon and Schuster, 509 pages, $28

In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy, by Ronald Steel, New York: Simon and Schuster, 224 pages, $23

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