This account by the author of The New York Times notable book California Fault documents Robert Kennedy's dramatic and ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign, outlining his positions on the Vietnam War, race, and poverty as well as his private struggles with the assassination of JFK. Reprint.
Thurston Clarke has written eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Pearl Harbor Ghosts and California Fault, a New York Times notable book. His articles have been published in Vanity Fair, Glamour, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Willsboro, New York, with his wife and three daughters.