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|title=Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
|author=David Talbot
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|format=Paperback
|pages=496
|publisher=Simon & Schuster Ltd
|date=4 Jun June 2007
|isbn=978-1847370822
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>1847370829</amazonuk>|amazonusaznuk=1847370829|aznus=<amazonus>0743269187</amazonus>
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Jack Kennedy was assassinated the day before my college interview and afterwards I could remember little of what had been said. Rather than feeling that a door was opening I felt that a light had been snuffed out. The man who offered promise of a better world had been brutally murdered by a loan gunman. Nearly five years later I had a young baby and Senator Robert Kennedy seemed about to offer a light at the end of the dark tunnel of the Johnson Presidency with all the horrors of Vietnam, when he too was shot in the head. The world looked to Senator Edward Kennedy and sighed.
If this period of American history interests you then you might also enjoy reading Simon Junger's [[A Death in Belmont]].
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|name=Jeannine Baker
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|comment= What is Talbot's position on the Kennedy years? Is he a supporter of the Kennedy's or is he on the other side of the fence? I am asking for a particular reason, that being, in the past decade or so, a number of books have come out exposing the Kennedy . This one is written in a postive note.  
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|name=Sue
|verb=replied
|comment=Talbot is definitely a Kennedy supporter and the book is written sympathetically but not sycophantically. Weaknesses are acknowledged but not dwelt on and there is no hint of sensationalism.}}
{{comment|name=Richard Phillips|verb= said|comment=As mentioned in your review, David Talbot is definitely a Kennedy supporter and did the exact same thing, totally ignored Marilyn Monroe, in his book is written sympathetically but not sycophanticallyabout the CIA Chief Allen Dulles, “The Devils Chessboard. Weaknesses are acknowledged but not dwelt ” I can assure you, the CIA and FBI had a large file on the Kennedys and there is no hint of sensationalismMonroe.Richard Phillips
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