Matthew Algeo (Bücher)

Matthew Algeo Bücher

Matthew Algeo widmet sich ungewöhnlichen und fesselnden Ereignissen der amerikanischen Geschichte, wobei er oft seine eigenen Erfahrungen in Erzählungen in der dritten Person einfließen lässt. Als Journalist hat sich seine Arbeit über vier Kontinente erstreckt und fand Eingang in bedeutende US-amerikanische Radioprogramme. Algeos unverwechselbarer Ansatz bringt eine einzigartige Perspektive in seine Schriften ein und lädt die Leser ein, die weniger ausgetretenen Pfade der amerikanischen Folklore und Geschichte zu erkunden. Sein erzählerischer Stil bietet eine fesselnde Mischung aus persönlichen Reflexionen und historischer Forschung.

All This Marvelous Potential

280 Seiten
10 Lesestunden

3,0(1)Abgeben

In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of eastern Kentucky to gauge the progress of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Kennedy, already considering challenging Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination, viewed his two days in Kentucky as an opportunity to test his antiwar and antipoverty message with hardscrabble white voters. Among the strip mines, one-room schoolhouses, and dilapidated homes, however, Kennedy encountered a strong mistrust and intense resentment of establishment politicians. In All This Marvelous Potential, author Matthew Algeo meticulously retraces RFK’s tour of eastern Kentucky, visiting the places he visited and meeting with the people he met. Algeo explains how and why the region has changed since 1968, and why it matters for the rest of the country. The similarities between then and now are astonishing: divisive politics, racial strife, economic uncertainty, and environmental alarm. This book provides a new portrait of Robert Kennedy, a politician who, for all his faults, had the uncommon courage to stand up to a president from his own party and shine a light on America’s shortcomings