1509 Robert Kennedy and His Times Volume II, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (read 2 Apr 1979) (National Book Award biography prize for 1979) The biography is written very approvingly, and with an insider's knowledge of the last campaign. I feel good that it was a campaign where I was on the right side, even though fortuitously . I remember just before I agreed to be 6th District chairman for Bobby Kennedy I was still objecting to him because he was such a dove. I was pretty much an Administration supporter on Vietnam until I became for Bobby. This volume is more interesting than Volume I since Volume I had less momentous things to discuss at times. The biography is not the definitive work, its organization is not the chronological one I like, and much of it is well-known, but still it was really good to read.The laconic sentence on page 955 (the book ends on page 956) clutched me: "Then Kennedy left the room for a press conference, taking a short cut through the kitchen." Schlesinger then shifts to how he heard, and spends less than two pages on the funeral and burial
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