The Heir Apparent: Robert Kennedy and the Struggle for Power

vii, 309 pp. "Mr. Shannon devotes much of his book to an analysis of the main events in RFK's life since the death of President Kennedy, from his assumption of the role as head of the Kennedy family and his triumphant invasion of New York State to the public relations disaster of the Manchester affair. ...also gives full measure to the development of the RFK phenomenon from the formative years of his youth through his days as "the terror of the bureaucracy" during his brother's Presidency."--jacket