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The Building Of Bobby Kennedy

Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress

This year in America has been compared with 1968, largely because of the sour public mood, coinciding with a presidential election. 

1968 was the year Robert Kennedy, brother of the late president, decided to run for the White House himself.  By the middle of the year, RFK was dead himself from an assassin's bullet. 

In the new book Bobby Kennedy: The Making Of A Liberal Icon, author Larry Tye tracks the formation of Kennedy's political persona through the straightlaced 1950s.  Larry Tye, who joined us for his earlier book on Superman, returns to the Exchange.

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.