We Must Meet Our Duty and Convince the World That We Are Just Friends and Brave Enemies

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 22 cm. xi, [1], 211, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. DJ worn, soiled, and some edge tears, some soiling to endpapers. Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968), sometimes referred to by the initials RFK and occasionally Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party. After serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946, Kennedy returned to at Harvard University, graduating in 1948. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia. He began his career as a lawyer at the Justice Department, but later resigned to manage his brother John's successful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1952. The following year, he worked as an assistant counsel to the Senate committee chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy. He gained national attention as the chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee from 1957 to 1959, where he publicly challenged Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa over the corrupt practices of the union. He was appointed United States Attorney General after the successful election and served as his brother's closest advisor until his 1963 assassination. His tenure is best known for its advocacy for the civil rights movement, the fight against organized crime and the Mafia, and involvement in U.S. foreign policy related to Cuba. Derived from a Kirkus review: Robert Kennedy has put together a catalogue of his 1962 30,000 mile world tour, made up of travel notes, speeches and the transcript of tape recordings of student question-and-answer exchanges. This is a forthright presentation of Mr. Kennedy's impressions of the people and nations he visited, with occasional humor and personal marginalia. There are several profiles of the world, leaders he met, including Prime Minister Ikeda of Japan, President Sukarno of Indonesia, Mayor Willy Brandt and Chancellor Adenauer of Germany, and France's De Gaulle. On less formal occasions, he is both host and guest of university students, labor leaders and Communist hecklers. Transcripts of these touch-and-go sessions are the backbone of the book and reveal the mind and feelings of the people along Mr. Kennedy's route far more than the state meetings with major political figures. From the record this book gives, Mr. Kennedy handles himself, the prestige of the United States, as well as many loaded questions with tact and honesty. In the final chapter he summarizes his impression of America's image, distorted or clear, in both East and West, and what changes he feels can and must be made.