Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-07-23
Books mentioned on Part One: The RFK Jr. Episodes
Robert sits down with Cody Johnston to discuss the origins of the Kennedy Family Curse, and how it trapped RFK Jr on the path to ruin. (4 Part Series) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Robert Evans discussed The Kennedys by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The patriarch by David Nasaw, and RFK Jr. by Jerry Oppenheimer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Kennedys
Discussed“playing by the rules of the day PJ had his troops put up blockades around the convention site they kept Rivals out until the Mahatma that's the nickname for his rival disguised his delegates as a funeral procession and smuggled them through Kennedy's lines in a hearse”
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The patriarch
Discussed“his biographer David Nassau claims to have found no hard or even very soft evidence of like bootlegging in researching his book The patriarch”
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RFK Jr.
Discussed“In the book 'RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream,' biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, who I do not like, tells this story. The 2008 thriller 'Snakes on a Plane' could have been based on an experience Bobby had as a kid when he took a sack of his pet reptiles on a flight from Washington”
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