AMERICAN JOURNEY: The Times of Robert Kennedy. Interviews by Jean Stein. Edited by George Plimpton. 372 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $8.95.
In a literary sense, Bobby was the most interesting of the Kennedy brothers. Detached and cool, Jack and Teddy often seemed like dutiful Romans. Not Bobby. Passionate, intense and contradictory, he had an Irish heart and a Greek conscience.
Until the right biographer—or dramatist—appears to re-create the tragic drama of his life and death, American Journey may suffice. An artful distillation of 347 taped interviews with friends, acquaintances and others connected in various...
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