Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes: Robert F. Kennedy's War Against Organized Crime..."a compelling piece of work, strongly evocative of an era that seems, more and more, to have been one of the most extraordinary periods in our history . The unions, the mobs, the plots, the characters."Don DeLillo |
Contents
Acknowledgments | xi |
Authors Note | xiii |
Preface | xv |
Introduction | xix |
The Father Within | 3 |
Recruitment of a Rookie Prosecutor | 15 |
The Emergence of Robert Kennedy | 22 |
Learning on the Job | 53 |
Labor and the Rackets | 177 |
Round Two in Newport | 203 |
A Meeting in Kennedys Office | 244 |
Hidden Villains Tragic Heroes | 258 |
Justice and Passion A Portrait of Robert Kennedy as Attorney General | 300 |
Notes | 331 |
Selected Bibliography | 339 |
Questions to Ponder | 345 |
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