Today’s TTT is “Books with ____” in the title. I…don’t really have anything, so here’s doubled-barrelled RFK.

Teaser Tuesday

“All of it — all the words about whether Bobby Kennedy is a ruthless, mechanical rich guy or a genius mellowed by great tragedy — all of it is superfluous when you see him coming up to a high school football team that is practicing for a game,” he wrote, as he watched the awestruck boys watch Kennedy watching them. “Bobby Kennedy can be every inch of the worst SOB we’ve ever had. Everything he does in public can be a facade. But standing on a football field with kids, nothing matters. There is something between them that is powerful.” THE PROMISE AND THE DREAM

“In 1946, when Jack was just starting off in politics and running for Congress, he didn’t even like having his brother around. ‘Black Robbie’ he called him, viewing him as too serious, too earnest, too much the straight arrow. One strategy for keeping him out of the way back then involved sending this twenty-year old family member to work in an East Cambridge Italian neighborhood where the campaign didn’t expect to get many votes. It worked surprisingly well. Bobby ended up spending his time playing softball with the local kids and making a hit. Later the campaign would credit Bobby’s own style of community outreach with cutting the rival candidate’s margin in those wards.”” RAGING SPIRIT

While it may seem unusual that I’ve only posted one book review in the last week, I’m almost done with three books, so….feast and famine.