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

by Jeff Shesol

Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. 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. Played out against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, theirs was a monumental political battle that would s

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

October 1998

Format

Print edition

Pages

624

ISBN

9780393318555