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""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.

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Author:   Matthew Algeo
Publisher:   Chicago Review Press
Imprint:   Chicago Review Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9781641605694

ISBN 10:   1641605693
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   05 October 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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""A powerful story, skillfully told."" -- Booklist

A powerful story, skillfully told. -- Booklist

"""A powerful story, skillfully told."" -- Booklist"

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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.

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