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Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade

byJeff Shesol

Their antagonism, propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views, and a deep, abiding animosity, would drive them to a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible. Drawing on archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, the narrative gives Mutual Contempt a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the lyndon johnson, robert kennedy, and the feud that defined a decade becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within political science. Mutual Contempt ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

October 1998

Format

Print edition

Pages

624

ISBN

9780393318555