Kennedy Justice

Victor S. Navasky

oct 2013 · Open Road Media

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DIVDIVFinalist for the National Book Award: A groundbreaking portrait of the intersection of law and politics in Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Justice/divDIV
As United States Attorney General, the young, legally inexperienced Robert F. Kennedy sat at the head of a vast department tasked with enforcing the law and defending the rights of an entire nation. Although his family connection to the White House raised eyebrows, Robert Kennedy’s tenure was marked by impassioned battles to root out corruption and protect individual civil liberties. From his fierce stand against organized crime to his tumultuous relationship with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, RFK proved time and again that he was a champion of fairness./divDIV
In this investigative account of the Kennedy years, acclaimed scholar Victor S. Navasky crafts an unmatched portrait of the complex interaction of power and principle in the halls of justice./divDIV/div/div

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Victor S. Navasky authored Naming Names, which won the National Book Award, and Kennedy Justice, a National Book Award finalist. For many years the editor of the Nation, and then its publisher, Navasky taught at a number of colleges and universities including Princeton University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he chaired the Columbia Journalism Review. He contributed articles and reviews to numerous magazines and journals of opinion, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a George Polk Award. Navasky was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences up until his death in 2023 at the age of 90.