Description: Further DetailsTitle: All This Marvelous PotentialCondition: NewSubtitle: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of AppalachiaAuthor: Matthew AlgeoFormat: PaperbackEAN: 9781641605694ISBN: 9781641605694Publisher: Chicago Review PressGenre: HistoryTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Date: 10/05/2021Description: "A powerful story, skillfully told." —Booklist A new portrait of Robert Kennedy, a politician who, for all his faults, had the uncommon courage to stand up to a president from his own party and shine a light on America's shortcomings In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of Appalachia to gauge the progress of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Kennedy viewed his two days in Kentucky as an opportunity to test his antiwar and antipoverty message with hardscrabble white voters. Among the strip mines, one-room schoolhouses, and dilapidated homes, however, Kennedy encountered a strong mistrust and intense resentment of establishment politicians. In All This Marvelous Potential, author Matthew Algeo meticulously retraces RFK's tour of eastern Kentucky, visiting the places he visited and meeting with the people he met. Algeo explains how and why the region has changed since 1968, and why it matters for the rest of the country. The similarities between then and now are astonishing: divisive politics, racial strife, economic uncertainty, and environmental alarm. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 562gRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: All This Marvelous Potential
Title: All This Marvelous Potential
Subtitle: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia
EAN: 9781641605694
ISBN: 9781641605694
Release Date: 10/05/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: All this Marvelous Potential : Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Matthew Algeo
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
