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On March 16, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for President. Eighty-two days later, on the night he won the California primary, he was shot dead. Clarke's book is a ride inside the spinning bubble of that frenzied, idealistic, doomed campaign. His discussion of the politics of class and race--the "backlash whites" in Indiana, the affluent antiwar voters in Oregon--proves remarkably topical, as is the moral challenge of Kennedy's speeches on poverty. ...