Robert Kennedy His Life Author:Evan Thomas In the nation's varied memory, Robert Kennedy is a contradictory figure, a hard-bullying McCarthyite obsessed with Hoffa and Castro but also a gentle, poetry-reading herald of a new age bent on stopping the Vietnam War and lifting up the poor. As Evan Thomas ( The Wise Men and Man to See ) writes, both liberals and conservatives have their own s... more »pin on his legacy, with predictably different visions of what he would have done if he had lived to be our 37th president.« less