Chris Matthews — Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters - with Margaret Carlson

From the host of Hardball (now on Substack) and acclaimed Kennedy biographer Chris Matthews comes a centennial tribute about why Robert F. Kennedy’s revolutionary vision offers the roadmap America needs today.Bobby Kennedy exemplified moral leadership and political bravery. He led us in pursuit of ideals. He took risks for peace and united us. Look at our country now, with its wide and deepening divisions. 100 years after his birth, RFK matters more than ever. On Bobby’s centennial, Chris Matthews, one of America’s foremost political commentators and Kennedy biographers, gives us ten electrifying lessons for today taken from Bobby’s life. Take them as a roadmap. America is great when it tries, at its best, to be good. This special anniversary book also includes a selection of Bobby Kennedy’s greatest speeches.Chris Matthews is the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit; Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero; Kennedy & Nixon: A Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America; and Hardball: How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game. Matthews was a presidential speechwriter and top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. For a generation, he hosted Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC, which is now exclusively on Substack.Matthews is in conversation with Margaret Carlson, Editor-at-Large of Semafor and a contributor at the Washington Monthly. She was Managing Editor of The New Republic, moved in 1988 to Time Magazine as its first female columnist, and then to Bloomberg News in 2004. For 20 years, she appeared as a panelist on CNN's Capitol Gang and Inside Politics. She is a graduate of Penn State and George Washington University Law School. https://politics-prose.com/book/9781668010938?ic_referral=s43JaspLMn3fIXotM2t1ezDEjJPcgRtG334gTFOR7zMwMyqHn97moSLLWsTQhdyqjgQ2kmqMdeV3zi59hFp0Z9xZGCKg-RKIoatwF6Fa9ihGvia-jxlbFtHPcNsGZ3SaJF-_6uQ