Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade
- ISBN-10
- 0393318559
- ISBN-13
- 9780393318555
- Category
- Legislators
- Pages
- 591
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Jeff Shesol
Description
Discusses the impact of the personal and political conflict between Kennedy and Johnson.
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- 1998-10-17
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- 1997
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