![]() In retrospect, the Kennedy era seemed a bright spot just before forces of darkness descended on the country. In May 1972, presidential candidate George Wallace was shot and permanently disabled. In July 1969, Edward Kennedy, the only surviving brother of President Kennedy, was caught up in a scandal when he drove a car that crashed on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass., leaving a young woman passenger dead. ![]() Two months later, Robert Kennedy, the slain president's brother, was murdered as he campaigned for the White House. Martin Luther King, Jr., the acclaimed civil rights leader, was killed. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades. ![]() Crime increased and many didn't feel safe in their neighborhoods. An Unfinished Life is the first authoritative single-volume life of John F. Young people lost faith in the older generation, particularly over the escalating Vietnam war, and anti-war and counter-cultural demonstrations proliferated. Robert Dallek succeeds as no other biographer has done in striking a critical balance - never shying away from JFKs weaknesses, brilliantly exploring his. Racial frictions grew and there were riots in many cities. Kennedy's assassination marked the start of what seemed to be a national nervous breakdown and other traumas followed. ![]()
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