Books

May, 1970

They were both Catholics, those extraordinary men who brought the only excitement to the 1968 Presidential campaign--but how different they were. Bobby Kennedy, for all his indecision about challenging L. B. J., once he decided, plunged straight ahead in the familiar Kennedy way, with phalanxes of fancy advisors and an electoral juggernaut fueled with vast sums of money. McCarthy, the quixotic poet, was bravely decisive in choosing to attempt to unseat an incumbent President, but he ran his race...