Here are the words of Robert F. Kennedy, in a voice that rings out clearly through the years with a sharp, concise evaluation of the Kennedy era. In a personal reminiscence that takes us behind the headlines, Robert Kennedy sheds light on the events and decisions of the Kennedy administration through the eyes of the people who worked in it and observed it directly. But most of all, Robert Kennedy speaks of his brother, John, and from these intimate memories a new portrait of JFK, the man and his era, emerges.

In these never-before-published transcripts of lively, extensive interviews originally recorded in the mid-1960's for the John F. Kennedy Library where they were available for historians and scholars, Robert Kennedy is both candid and incisive as he explains his own role in American policy from the Bay of Pigs to the civil rights movement to the early years of American involvement in Vietnam. Edited by Edwin O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman, with a foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Hardcover, 493 pages.