"""Apowerful 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 ofAppalachiato 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.
InAll 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."
By:
Matthew Algeo
Imprint: Chicago Review Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 562g
ISBN: 9781641605694
ISBN 10: 1641605693
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 05 October 2021
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Robert F. Kennedy’s Itinerary Introduction Part I: Before the Trip Night Dysgenics Replace Their Despair Tom Fletcher An Article in Life Poverty Obsessed A Pioneer in Opposition Research Part II: Tuesday, February 13, 1968 1:00 pm—Vortex Swango Fugate Black and Proud Reverend Connie Just Pee in This Jug Sedition 2:30 pm—Barwick Three Licks and a Smile 3:30 pm—Hazard 5:00 pm—Yellow Creek, A Guy Who Wears Horns Hell, I’ll Handle This A Prairie in the Mountains 7:00 pm—Pippa Passes, The Globe Woman Reverend Baldridge The Deepening Swamp “Ulysses” Campaign ’68 Lurleen Part III: Wednesday, February 14, 1968 8:00 am—Whitesburg A Winter Tan To Cure Poverty 10:00 am—Neon, Waiting for Kennedy Nell Make Yourselves Comfortable A Worm in a Miniskirt The A.V.s The Cloverfork Newsletter The Average Homosexual Paper Bags The War on Welfare Queens Dave Zegeer The Zegeer Files All the Girls 3:00 pm—Prestonsburg From the Kentucky Coal Mines . . . . . . to the California Sun Part IV: After the Trip Another Thing I Wish to Comment on Is Your Long Hair I Knew Something Was Wrong Cote’s Cemetery Acknowledgments Sources Bibliography Index
MatthewAlgeois the author of Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure, The President Is a Sick Man, and Abe & Fido. An award-winning journalist, Algeo has reported from four continents for public radio's All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition.
Reviews for All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia
"""A powerful story, skillfully told."" -- Booklist"
